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  • Castello Monaci

  • Castello Monaci

  • Castello Monaci

    Castello Monaci

    The castle, with its noble elegance, is an imposing fortification that dates back to a settlement of ancient French monks from the first half of the sixteenth century. The property has been family-run for four generations.
    The road that leads to the castle and the cellar divides the vineyards in two. A long corridor that is a passage in time inside a place where you meet modernity and deep roots. This is the estate of Castello Monaci, which welcomes us with its ancient castle in the distance. Not far from the city and the sea, on the road that leads from Lecce to Taranto, at the gates of Salice Salentino, immersed in a secular vegetation, we find the vineyards of Castello Monaci. Among lush olive trees, bounteous vineyards and the wind of two seas that caresses them, the sun floods the earth with light and warmth.

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    Castello Monaci subscribes to a protocol defining the commitments it intends to make towards stakeholders, from viticulture to cellar operations, in reference to the following areas:

    Energy consumption;
    Emission of climate-changing gases (CO2);
    Water management;
    Waste Management;
    Protection and development of landscape and biodiversity.

    Good practices of environmental sustainability have already been established.
    The protocol is the starting point for evolving sustainability into a tool to manage the company strategy and the relationship with stakeholders. It also shows a concrete commitment by the company itself on the main aspects of environmental sustainability, referring to its core business and the relationship with stakeholders along the entire chain, laying the foundations for the construction of a structured dialogue with the territory.

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    The white tuff cellar near the castle, built by the Memmo family in the 1970s, offers a refrigerated system of crushing through thermo-conditioned steel tanks. The cellar is characterised not only for the managed wine-making technologies but also for a particularly attractive barrique cellar. The area dedicated to the ageing of wines is dug into the tuff, a natural thermal insulator, and houses 1000 barriques and 18 French oak barrels. The vineyards of Castello Monaci are one of the best models of the innovative viticulture of Salento. The choice of vines stems from the union of the oenological tradition – which promotes the indigenous Negroamaro, Primitivo and Malvasia Nera di Lecce, Fiano and Verdeca – with scientific management of the vineyard, through a careful selection of clones. Here, the work of the sun meets the ingenuity of man.

    The tuff is transformed, degraded and mixed into the ground to give structure and better water control. Its white colour, visible on the surface, reflects the light from below, increasing the beneficial effects of the sun.

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