About Winery and Wines
Domus Hortaeis the Fioretti family business always has been committed to the cultivation of vineyards, which takes care of it with utmost dedication and passion since 1788 AC, enhancing its productions. The love for the land of the Fioretti family has its roots in distant times. Some ancient documents found in the Diocesan Archives, would identify in Matteo Fioretti the first Fioretti ancestor, arrived in 1788, in the countryside of Orta Nova, a municipality located in the center of the Tavoliere delle Puglie, precisely in Grassano delle Fosse, as lists of the land registry. Passo di Grassano, so called on historical maps, is one of the districts adjacent to the “Locatione D’Horta” connected to it by underground walkways, above which are planted the family vineyards, which led up to the town where it was located the Domus of Frederick II. The term DomusHortae derives from the Latin “Domus”, that is, a residence intended as a family home, a place designed to preserve the flavors of a tradition that is perpetuated in a centuries-old family farming, but is also the ancient to ponym of Orta Nova town. In fact, the words Domus Hortae were used by Frederick II of Swabia to identify one of his residences. He moved to the Land of Capitanata to reorganize the territory, which soon saw a flourishing rebirth, building many domus, “Masserie” and “Castrum”. Capitanata becomes “Caput” of the kingdom and then the words on an epigraphic framet found near the (Castle) Domus of Orta.
The strong bond between passion and work, ardor and hard work, imparted from father to son, allowed to pass on the heritage, in addition to the land and vineyards, the love and dedication to the land to the future generations of the family. In the heart of this land, even today, the Fioretti family, with a modern entrepreneurial spirit, enriches the company with specific technical skills in the cultivation and management of the vine, embellishing what the ancient tradition of a family has left as a passion. The “ortese” farmland is characterized by a very heterogeneous and diversifiedsoil in the various zones that identify it and by a microclimate that gives strong temperature excursions between night and day. The combination of all these factors make possible that this microenvironment gives the vineyards, of this wonderful land of the Tavoliere, peculiar characteristics. Surrounded by mountains and seas, they are able to produce grapes whose wines will have aromatic complexity, an important supply of alcohol and a consistent body.