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Castel di Salve
(Winery in Salento)

5 (15 Reviews)
Salento < Tricase < Lecce < Apulia < Italy Open Map

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5 (14 Reviews)

Wine tasting and tour at Castel di Salve in Salento

Apulia, Lecce, Tricase - (Salento) 1 Hour 40 Minutes Min 2, Max 15
From €25 (Groups Discount Available!)
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Salento 1885 – Private Visit and Wine Tasting at Castel di Salve

Tricase, Lecce, Apulia - (Salento) 2 Hours Min 2, Max 6
From €40
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Informative, persönliche Führung durch das Weingut mit Verkostung

Rate: 5 out of 5 10/1/25
Wir hatten eine sehr informative, spannende und vor allem auch persönliche Führung im Castel di Salve auf Englisch und dank den Sprachkentnissen des Besitzers auch teilweise auf Deutsch. Auch die Weinverkostung hat sich wirklich gelohnt. Wir haben dabei noch einmal viel über die verschiedenen Traubensorten und Weine gelernt. Zum Schluss haben wir sogar noch einen Süsswein mit Panettone als Überraschung erhalten. Sehr leckere Weine!
Auf jeden Fall ein empfehlenswertes Erlebnis!
Huber

Best Tasting Ever!

Rate: 5 out of 5 10/1/25
We had a wonderful time touring the winery. The tour was interesting and the owner added a lot of entertaining anecdotes that really made for a fun experience. We had the chance to try five different wines during the tasting. All of them were great but I really liked their Primitivo and Lama del Tenente the best.
Don't forget to bring home several bottles of their Lama del Tenente reserve. One of the best reds I tried while in Puglia.
Eric

Sehr sympathische und informative Führung, wunderbares Tasting!

Rate: 5 out of 5 10/1/25
Wir haben eine private Führung über das Weingut mit anschließendem Tasting im Archiv des Weinguts gebucht. Düse wurde vom Sohn des Besitzers durchgeführt, der super sympathisch und lebendig von den Weinen und der Geschichte des Familienunternehmens berichten konnte. Die für das Tasting ausgewählten Weine orientierten sich an unseren Interessen und waren allesamt spannend und lecker. Wir können die Führung und das Tasting sehr empfehlen!
I.

Molto bello

Rate: 5 out of 5 7/1/25
Interessante e generosa degustazione di vini locali con un accenno anche di storia. Lama del Tenente top
Mirko

Stellar Experience

Rate: 5 out of 5 6/1/25
Super wine tour and tasting experience at Castel Di Salve! Beautiful wines and a beautiful family business! Thoroughly enjoyed our educational & fun filled conversations with the owner Francesco, and his son Riccardo! We certainly have a new found appreciation for the Salento grape varieties that we will search out back in Canada!
Jon

A Delightful Experience at Castel di Salve

Rate: 5 out of 5 6/1/25
Absolutely loved our visit to Castel di Salve! The wines were exceptional, the staff incredibly welcoming, and the atmosphere unforgettable. Highly recommended for any wine lover!
Elisa

Fantástica

Rate: 5 out of 5 6/1/25
What made this tour stand out was the perfect balance of education, indulgence, and relaxation. It never felt rushed or overly touristy — just a genuinely great day celebrating excellent wine and good company.
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Helen Anne

Relaxed & Insightful

Rate: 5 out of 5 5/1/25
A very relaxed tour, thoughtful, very friendly and made us feel very comfortable. The wine quality was excellent and tasting room was very comfortable. You are touring their production space, in their original 5th generation facility, located within the village, with some small area for vines. If you’re looking for a winery with vast expanse of vines and rolling hills this isn’t it.
Nadine

Parfait

Rate: 5 out of 5 5/1/25
La visite était très bien menée et expliquée en français.
Visite du domaine, des caves, et très bonne dégustation.

Merci beaucoup
Alexandre

Great guide, great wines.

Rate: 5 out of 5 2/1/25
This family owned winery is an absolute must visit. Our guide Riccardo was knowledgable and passionate about the history and wine making process at his family's business (5th generation).
The buildings are beautiful and the wines are wonderful.
Paul
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About Winery and Wines

Castel di Salve is proudly one of the historical wine producers in Puglia, having been founded in 1885 by Antonio Winspeare, Duke of Salve, to produce fine table wines and aged bottled wines from the grapes farmed in the estates of Salve, Supersano and Depressa. At its founding, the winery was the first to age and bottle its wines in Salento, under the guidance of Bordeaux winemaker Simon Murat. Its wines commended awards in competitions and expos in London (1888), Chicago (1894), Asti (1898), Paris and Naples (1900).

To this day, Castel di Salve has been working on the same land striving to express it into wines of character and elegance. The estate follows all of the production processes in the winery built by their ancestors in 1879: from the destemming of the grapes, the different fermentations, the refining and aging in oak barrels in the underground cellars excavated from limestone.

During the last 3 decades, we have modernized the building with respect for the past architecture, to fully control the hygiene of the environment where our wines evolve. To Castel di Salve, cleanliness and controlled temperatures are key to obtaining stable wines without invasive methods. Stainless steel and concrete tanks are temperature-controlled through a system powered by solar panels covering around 92% of our winery’s energy consumption for over 10 years.

Castel di Salve takes great care of 19 hectares of vineyards with only local varieties, surrounded by olives, woods, oaks, cereals and Mediterranean bush. Its sandy-clayish soil has long been known for the finesse and elegance of the wines here derived.

The estate focuses on indigenous varieties of Salento – Verdeca, Negroamaro, Malvasia Nera di Lecce, and Primitivo – together with other southern Italian ones, which they farm to medium-low yields using only natural fertilizers. To nurture the soil, Castel di Salve consistently generates green manure (‘sovescio’) by planting oats, rye, or letting other natural “weeds” grow with the vines, promoting the natural nutritional balance of the plants.