LLS VDI 2019

CANTELE | Puglia

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At the end of World War II, when most of the population of Puglia was moving North to work in the big factories near Torino and Milano, Giovanni Battista Cantele, a wine merchant living in the northern city of Imola, moved his family to Salento. The final decision was made by his wife Teresa Manara, who at the time, barely knew anything about the area but fell in love with Puglia at first sight. She would later become the inspiration for a wine that now bears her name. After studying winemaking in Conegliano, Giovanni’s son, Augusto Cantele, started the family winery, Cantine Cantele, with his father and his brother Domenico in 1979. Today, Teresa Manara and Giovanni Battista Cantele’s grandchildren run the winery together: Augusto’s children, Gianni and Paolo; and Domenico’s children, Umberto and Luisa. Cantele is constantly working to change peoples’ perception of Puglian wine, and to use sustainable methods to create elegant wines that elevate theregion.TheCantelewinery is located inGuagnano, intheheartoftheDOCwhereNegroamaro dominates a landscape surrounded by water and shaped by constant winds.

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