This is the Baccus Temple, where technology and nature meet every day to create top rated wines. You can see the whiteness of the winery, made of tuff (providing natural insulation) and built in the 70s by Memmo’s family.
Here there’s a refrigerate pressing system, linked to the area dedicated to wine aging through thermo-controlled tanks and an advanced wine-making system. Moreover, a spectacular barrel cellar holds more than 1000 barrique and 18 french-oak casks. Shovelled in the white tuff of the cellar, it is a real sight to see.
Castello Monaci wines are named after the legends and myths that remind of the greek origins of Apulia: Medos, Kreos, Maru, Piluna, Artas and Aiace. They are made with local grapevines such as Primitivo, Negramaro and Lecce’s Malvasia Nera.
Castello Monaci, an estate whose expanses blend with the contours of the place where it stands: the Salento region. Salento is known as the heel of Italy because of its shape: a strip of land, with two seas, the Ionian and the Adriatic, lapping against its shores. It is influenced by the sea (in the salinity of the soil), by the sun (the area with the most sun hours in Italy) and by the wind (with its natural anti-mould effect). Innovation and technology in the wine cellar are highly sophisticated: a cutting-edge pressing system and vinification technology with temperature-controlled steel tanks with 50-hectolitre compartments. There is also a barrique cellar, dug into the hard rock, providing natural thermal insulation for more than 1,000 French oak barriques.
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