D'Alfonso Del Sordo

About Winery and Wines

The D’Alfonso del Sordo’s vine growing and wine producing family tradition dates back to 1800, when some members of the family, enthusiastic farmers, began to cultivate vines in the family estates located in San Severo countryside: The baron Antonio Del Sordo, who had intended part of his estates located in San Severo and Lucera to vine growing, and Ludovico D’Alfonso, passionate vine grower, who already chose the best grapes from his vines at that time and vinified them in the basement of his house. In order to guarantee the continuity of the family name in the early 1900s Giovanni Del Sordo, Antonio’s son, having no descendants, decided to adopt Felice D’Alfonso, Ludovico’s son: It was the birth of D’Alfonso del Sordo family. In the second half of 1900 Antonio D’Alfonso Del Sordo, Felice’s firstborn, set up a society, laying the foundations for a commercial expansion of the family business, moreover, deciding to build a big winery in the heart of his estates, and transferring the transformation activity, ageing and wine bottling still done, following the family tradition, in the winery in San Severo city centre, in the more comfortable “Coppanetta” estate, and in contrada Sant’Antonino da Piede.

Here it is San Severo with its two souls: one is monumental, religious with the Benedectine monastery, wrapped up in an atmosphere of ancient , mystical sweetness, and the Celestine mansion, the Episcopate, the little church of the “La Pietà”, enveloped in elegant ornaments with its streets that flow outwards in all directions. The other is that of wine. Gradually, as one goes further away from the centre, the wine smell rises up uninterruptealy, coming out of dark arkades and the gratings of large windows; …and while going towards the long stretches of vines on the ondulations of the land that slope down to the heart of this magnificent zone , you may meet hosts pouring this delicious wine into your glass. We will go to drink San Severo Bianco in its native wine cellars, naturally ( who once compared it to a lily?) , with its people, and alongsidethe white and the rosè, its close relative, after the red, because when one is going tasting, he needs to know everything, The aroma follows you up and down the hills and past the wine cellars, always unique, always free; They will give you a piece of bread to go with it ( from a wheel of “casereccio” bread, typical in Apulia), and perhaps a bit of still fresh pecorino cheese, with its almost acidulous taste and its moistness,