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A great place in Guagnano, Salento.

6/1/17
The Moros winery is above all a beautiful architectural place. It is located in the town of Guagnano, about 25 km from Lecce, the capital of Salento. Only one wine is produced in this cellar. A special wine that tells the story of all the Salento. A Salice Salentino, historical Italian DOC, which is called Moros. A multi award-winning wine produced by Vigneron Claudio Quarta which is made with Negroamaro and Malvasia nera grapes coming from a soil with a predominantly clayey feature with the presence of limestone, which extends for just over one hectare in the beautiful countryside of Guagnano. Moros wine has an intense deep red color with amaranth reflections. Its particularly captivating scent has strong notes of vanilla and cherry jam. The taste of red berry fruits with fine balsamic notes and sweet nuances from the wood is marked on the palate. In the basement of the cellar where there is the barrel, there is a beautiful private collection of archaeological finds from the area of ​​Taranto (Magna Graecia). The Moros winery is a small winery but it certainly deserves a visit together with all the other important wineries of Guagnano, one of the most important wine towns in Salento.
Stefano
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About Winery and Wines

It is Claudio Quarta Vignaiolo’s headquarter, and a small contemporary art gallery: among the wooden barrels, the desks, the production spaces, some paintings of considerable value are alternated with the magnificent mural “Germinazioni3” created by the Maestro Ercole Pignatelli, a great protagonist of Italian and European figurative culture since the 1960s, while the underground cellar holds the precious archeological finds telling the ancient history of wine in the private “Museum of the Symposium of Claudio Quarta“. Visitors to the winery are accompanied on a unique journey between wine and the artistic and architectural beauty that redesigned the workplace. Periodically are hosted here photographic and pictorial exhibitions of emerging artists, wine tastings – sometimes associated with impromptu moments of dance and theater. This is possible because Moros is a unique place, where you can breathe the special link between Art and Wine.

The first vintage of Moros, the prestigious 2012 – now a collector’s label, immediately conquered the great American pens and the palate of the greatest international wine judges: Robert Parker in his The Wine Advocate and Wine Spectator in fact awarded a prestigious 90/100 to its debut on the international market in 2015. It was born in Salento, from Negroamaro saplings and very few stumps of black Malvasia, as in the ancient local tradition, in an old vineyard of just over 1 hectare, recovered and saved from abandonment, on the characteristic clayey and dark soil. The harvest is strictly performed manually and the yield is low to reach the highest quality. The grapes are processed in the small modern cellar and the wine is transferred by gravity down to the underground barrel, which houses the French oak barriques where Moros ages for 12 months.La prima annata di Moros, la pregiata vendemmia 2012 – ormai etichetta da collezione, ha subito conquistato le grandi penne americane e il palato dei più grandi giudici internazionali del vino: Robert Parker sul suo The Wine Advocate e Wine Spectator hanno infatti assegnato un prestigioso 90/100 al suo debutto sul mercato internazionale nel 2015.

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