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Tormaresca’s History and Philosophy
<\/span><\/strong><\/h2>\nLarge-scale producers of wine are anything but uncommon in Apulia <\/strong>– it should sufficient to cite the numerous cooperative wineries which can group together close to 1,0000 small holders, or the estates, many of which still belong to noble or patrician families whose\u00a0latifundum<\/i>\u00a0(to use the Latin term) once covered what could be termed small fiefdoms and even today extend over very sizeable parts of the region.<\/span><\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.italysfinestwines.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/tormaresca-1.jpg\")
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Tormaresca<\/strong>, however, though comparable in dimension to these productive realities, has been, from the start, a different sort of operation. Although in the new millennium Puglia has attracted significant investments from the north, Tormaresca was the first of this type: it began with the purchase by\u00a0Antinori<\/strong>\u00a0of the vineyards first planted by the\u00a0Gancia<\/strong>\u00a0sparkling wine house of Piedmont, to which were added an even larger spread of vineyard property in the south,\u00a0at\u00a0San Pietro Vernotico<\/strong>\u00a0in the province of Brindisi. Different soils and climatic conditions, different grapes, different wines and objectives as well. But with a common thread: the conviction that the region could produce well made wine at affordable prices and that selections of a\u00a0 superior could also be made.<\/p>\nThe wines of Tormaresca<\/span><\/strong><\/h2>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.italysfinestwines.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/tormaresca2.jpg\")
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A well calculated analysis of the possibilities and prospects, as the past twenty years have demonstrated. The numbers are indeed there: the 950 acres of vineyards are, in fact,\u00a0 capable of producing important volumes of wine: 500 thousand bottles of the regular\u00a0Chardonnay<\/strong>, close to 350 thousand bottles of a\u00a0blend of Negroamaro<\/strong>,\u00a0Primitivo<\/strong>, and\u00a0Cabernet<\/strong>, over 200 thousand bottles of\u00a0Fichimori<\/strong>, a red wine \u201cto be drunk cool\u201d, Negroamaro and Syrah, the indigenous together with the international to indicate that cultural and technical barriers simply do not exist.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.italysfinestwines.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/tormaresca3.jpg\")
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Tormaresca<\/strong>, however, though comparable in dimension to these productive realities, has been, from the start, a different sort of operation. Although in the new millennium Puglia has attracted significant investments from the north, Tormaresca was the first of this type: it began with the purchase by\u00a0Antinori<\/strong>\u00a0of the vineyards first planted by the\u00a0Gancia<\/strong>\u00a0sparkling wine house of Piedmont, to which were added an even larger spread of vineyard property in the south,\u00a0at\u00a0San Pietro Vernotico<\/strong>\u00a0in the province of Brindisi. Different soils and climatic conditions, different grapes, different wines and objectives as well. But with a common thread: the conviction that the region could produce well made wine at affordable prices and that selections of a\u00a0 superior could also be made.<\/p>\n A well calculated analysis of the possibilities and prospects, as the past twenty years have demonstrated. The numbers are indeed there: the 950 acres of vineyards are, in fact,\u00a0 capable of producing important volumes of wine: 500 thousand bottles of the regular\u00a0Chardonnay<\/strong>, close to 350 thousand bottles of a\u00a0blend of Negroamaro<\/strong>,\u00a0Primitivo<\/strong>, and\u00a0Cabernet<\/strong>, over 200 thousand bottles of\u00a0Fichimori<\/strong>, a red wine \u201cto be drunk cool\u201d, Negroamaro and Syrah, the indigenous together with the international to indicate that cultural and technical barriers simply do not exist.<\/p>\nThe wines of Tormaresca<\/span><\/strong><\/h2>\n
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