Doppio Passo
Doppio Passo is a productive reality characterized by the desire to enhance the wine-growing Puglia with its viticultural excellences, first and foremost the Primitivo. The estate is located within the municipality of San Pancrazio Salentino, in the southern part of the province of Brindisi, at the border between Taranto and Lecce. The winery was acquired in 2017 by the Botter family, a Venetian family already owning multiple estates scattered across some of the most important wine regions of the entire Peninsula. The Botter family can indeed boast about 1,500 hectares of vineyards located in numerous regions of both Northern and Southern Italy, including Puglia, managed with particular attention to sustainability. The idea of investing in the “Heel of Italy” was born back in the 1980s, when the Botters began to establish numerous relationships with local producers, sensing the wine potential of the region.
The Doppio Passo winery is equipped with the most modern technologies in the sector to ensure the best possible treatment for the Primitivo grapes, the symbolic grape variety of Puglia on which the estate concentrates its efforts. Alongside it, Doppio Passo also cultivates Negroamaro, Malvasia Nera, and Merlot. These black grape varieties benefit from the typically warm and Mediterranean climate that characterizes the territory, as well as from the saline breezes that blow from both the Ionian Sea and the Adriatic Sea. The harvests are always accompanied by a meticulous selection of the bunches, aimed at working exclusively with healthy and high-quality berries, which are vinified either in red or in rosé. While the grapes destined for reds are harvested at full ripeness, those intended for rosés are harvested slightly earlier in order to bring to the winery berries with an important endowment of organic acids, a fundamental prerequisite for the type. All fermentations take place in temperature-controlled stainless steel tanks, while the subsequent maturation processes can take place in wooden barrels or still in steel, depending on the label in question.
As mentioned, the Primitivo constitutes the coreDoppio Passo is a productive reality characterized by the desire to enhance the wine-growing Puglia with its viticultural excellences, first and foremost the Primitivo. The estate is located within the municipality of San Pancrazio Salentino, in the southern part of the province of Brindisi, at the border between Taranto and Lecce. The winery was acquired in 2017 by the Botter family, a Venetian family already owning multiple estates scattered across some of the most important wine regions of the entire Peninsula. The Botter family can indeed boast about 1,500 hectares of vineyards located in numerous regions of both Northern and Southern Italy, including Puglia, managed with particular attention to sustainability. The idea of investing in the “Heel of Italy” was born back in the 1980s, when the Botters began to establish numerous relationships with local producers, sensing the wine potential of the region.
The Doppio Passo winery is equipped with the most modern technologies in the sector to ensure the best possible treatment for the Primitivo grapes, the symbolic grape variety of Puglia on which the estate concentrates its efforts. Alongside it, Doppio Passo also cultivates Negroamaro, Malvasia Nera, and Merlot. These black grape varieties benefit from the typically warm and Mediterranean climate that characterizes the territory, as well as from the saline breezes that blow from both the Ionian Sea and the Adriatic Sea. The harvests are always accompanied by a meticulous selection of the bunches, aimed at working exclusively with healthy and high-quality berries, which are vinified either in red or in rosé. While the grapes destined for reds are harvested at full ripeness, those intended for rosés are harvested slightly earlier in order to bring to the winery berries with an important endowment of organic acids, a fundamental prerequisite for the type. All fermentations take place in temperature-controlled stainless steel tanks, while the subsequent maturation processes can take place in wooden barrels or still in steel, depending on the label in question.
As mentioned, the Primitivo constitutes the core
