About Winery and Wines
In the heart of the Taranto countryside, among the horizons of the Ionian coast, stands the Trefontane winery. It is the year 1920. Fruit of the commitment and ambitions of three generations, between technology and modernity respectful of ancient wine traditions, Azienda Vinicola Tenuta Trefontane, draws from the land of origin of Nicola, founder of the company, to translate in a "timeless goblet" the fruit of the Apulian land. Viticulturist in the area of Gioia del Colle, mother land of the primitive vine, he moved to the borders of the sea in order to have his commitment and hard work rewarded by unique wines for their aroma, richness and concentration. The landscape of the vineyards which go as far as the sea, the audacity of the son Andrea and of the grandson Nicola; the tenacity of the viticulturists, ready to cultivate them often for pure love and against any economic and market logic, does justice to the will of submitting nature to the extreme limits. The more than 30 hectares of land from which Tenuta Trefontane is made up, are cultivated with the care of a garden, plant by plant, fruit of a passion that has always pushed the farmers, almost "guests" of a painting with bittersweet hues, to consider the wine activity a philosophy, with the absolute priority of the quality of the product over any market consideration.
The Trefontane Estate extends along the lands of Salina and Mar Piccolo, on the north-eastern side, right next to the Ionian Gulf, from which it steals the essences that it transfuses into the product of the land, grapes with inebriating scents, like ancestors of almost ancestral flavours of blackberries and cinnamon that we find in the full-bodied reds and fresh whites. Today Nicola carries out, with meticulous care, the control of the production, from the selection of the vines to the finished product, making use of the most modern devices for winemaking and of the collaboration of Italian technicians and oenologists, brilliantly undertaking new commercial activities and promoting all over the world the knowledge of Taranto's wine products. The work of the winery is based on the production of autochthonous varieties: Primitivo, Negroamaro, Malvasia Nera, while trying, at the same time, to interpret, in a modern way, also those varieties which are part of the regional patrimony and which are well suited for the always attentive tastes of young people as well as satisfying the most demanding and refined palates.