Top 100 white wines of Salento

Discover the top 100 best white wines of Salento of Salento as well as the best winemakers in the region. Explore the varietals of the white wines that are popular of Salento and the best vintages to taste in this region.

Discovering the wine region of Salento

Heel of the Italian boot, sunny and generous vineyard. Fleshy reds: signature Negroamaro ("black-bitter") deep and sturdy, notes of black cherry, plum, spices and a characteristic bitter finish, star in Salice Salentino DOC. Opulent jammy Primitivo di Manduria (= Zinfandel) with notes of black fruits, chocolate and raisin. Supple Malvasia Nera.

Juicy rosés with red fruits. Hot Mediterranean climate, red clay soils. Sun-drenched wines for immediate pleasure.

Discover the grape variety: Vermentino

Nervy, saline whites with cutting acidity and enveloping richness, showing aromas of grapefruit, lime, pear, white flowers, fresh almond, fennel and marine iodine notes. Slightly bitter finish. Star of Sardinia (Vermentino di Gallura DOCG), Liguria, coastal Tuscany (Bolgheri) and Corsica. Also in Provence and Languedoc-Roussillon as Rolle. An autochthonous Mediterranean variety.

Food and wine pairing with a white wine of Salento

white wines from the region of Salento go well with generally quite well with dishes of shellfish, vegetarian or appetizers and snacks such as recipes of wok of shrimps with vegetables, nanie's diced ham quiche or snowman in pudding.

Organoleptic analysis of white wine of Salento

On the nose in the region of Salento often reveals types of flavors of peach, green apple or vegetal and sometimes also flavors of tree fruit, citrus fruit or yellow apple. In the mouth in the region of Salento is a powerful.