Wines made from Aléatico grapes of Salice Salentino
Discover the best wines made with Aléatico as a single variety or as a blend of Salice Salentino.
Aromatic, sweet reds with a light ruby robe, fine tannins and a luscious palate. Intense, refined aromas of rose, wild strawberry, raspberry, candied cherry, delicate muscat and soft spices. Often vinified as passito, sweet or fortified by drying; rarely as dry reds. Star of Elba Aleatico Passito DOCG and Aleatico di Gradoli DOC in Lazio, also present in Puglia. Native Italian variety, related to Muscat Blanc à Petits Grains.
Apulia DOC in the heel of the boot (Salento), realm of native Negroamaro (min. 75-90%) on terra rossa. Signature powerful sunny reds with notes of candied black cherry, blackberry, tobacco, leather, liquorice and sweet spice touch, round tannins and warm mouth — Southern heat in the bottle. Often completed by aromatic Malvasia Nera.