Top 100 wines of Puglia

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

Discovering the wine region of Puglia

Heel of the boot, 80% red vineyard, sunny and generous. Fleshy, jammy Primitivo (= Zinfandel) with notes of black cherry, plum, chocolate and spices, powerful alcohol and melted tannins, a star in Primitivo di Manduria. Deep, structured Negroamaro (black-bitter) with a bitter finish in Salice Salentino. Structured Nero di Troia, spicy Susumaniello.

Some lively Verdeca and Bombino whites. ~17% of Italian production, Mediterranean climate. Crowd-pleasing reds, sun-drenched bottles.

Discover the grape variety: Negroamaro

Powerful, structured reds with an almost black inky hue, firm tannins and a solar dense palate, with intense aromas of ripe black fruits (blackberry, plum), tobacco, leather, Mediterranean herbs, spices, liquorice and balsamic notes with a signature bitter finish. Also made as structured rosés. Star of Salice Salentino DOC, Brindisi DOC and Squinzano DOC in Salento. Native Italian variety from Puglia; its name evokes its black colour and bitterness.

Food and wine pairing with a wine of Puglia

wines from the region of Puglia go well with generally quite well with dishes of beef, pasta or lamb such as recipes of baeckeoffe, trofie ( pasta ) paradiso or original mafé with okra.

Organoleptic analysis of wine of Puglia

On the nose in the region of Puglia often reveals types of flavors of cream, cherry or oaky and sometimes also flavors of smoke, butter or earthy. In the mouth in the region of Puglia is a powerful mainly marked by the residual sugar.