On the main road between Trani and Corato, at number 178, we find the entrance to the tree-lined avenue that leads to the agricultural estate. At the end of it, you can glimpse the white facade covered with the bougainvillaea of the ancient Masseria - home of the current owners - and the family chapel.
All around this typical residence of the Apulian countryside, there are the 150 hectares of the estate, where you can breathe the sea breeze, which is about 3 km from here, surrounded by the neat rows of well-kept vineyards, olive and almond groves.
The cellars, which were partially dug in the famous Trani stone, were built in 1884 and still retain part of the original Slavonian oak barrels. Here the grapes that are selected and produced in the 65 hectares of vineyards around the ancient Masseria, are finally transformed.
The harvest is diversified for each type of grape and the proximity of the vineyards allows the immediate processing of the grapes, thus allowing them to maintain their integrity so that they can best express their varietal characteristics.
The vineyards are grown on medium-textured soils (tuffaceous-calcareous) and grown with espalier/ cordon-trained and guyot systems, with a planting density of about 4500 plants per hectare - as for the Chardonnay vine variety.
The best expression of the native vine variety in this area is certainly the Moscato di Trani, but the winning choice in renewing the vineyards was to enhance the planting of native and southern vines with a strong identity, without forgetting some important foreign grape varieties.
In addition to the traditional Moscato Reale di Trani, Uva di Troia, Bombino Bianco, Bombino Nero, Primitivo and Aglianico vine varieties, the new vineyards stand out for the bold combination of native grapes with innovative grapes with a strong southern and international identity, like Falanghina, Fiano, Syrah, Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot and Chardonnay. It should be remembered that, if today we have the Fiano grape variety with the P.G.I. denomination in Puglia, it is due to Don Ferdinando Capece Minutolo, who was the first to plant this vine here.