Gianfranco Fino

Region: Apulia

Gianfranco Fino has rightfully entered the range of those winegrowers tied to traditions whishing to save old vineyards and keep their features alive.
The vines mainly trained with small bush pugliese system and grow on limestone-clayey red soil and caressed by the breeze coming from Ionian sea and the warm Apulian sun.

Typicity and innovation are the core values that the winery achieves by adopting traditional growing techniques along with modern production processes.
Work in the vineyard is carefull and all operations are manual.
Harvest is carried out at first light the selected bunches are manually harvested in cases and located in refrigerator trucks for the transport to the cellar.

Destemming starts only in the afternoon when grapes have reached the right temperature.
The wines aged at least nine months in 228 litres French oak barriques.