Ep. 71 Monty Waldin interviews Carlo Indennitate (Cantina San Donaci) | Italian Wine Coops

Italian wine podcast. Chinching with Italian wine people. This podcast has been recorded during Vivite an event organized by the the alliance of Italian corps. Hello. This is the Italian wine podcast. My name is Monte Gordon Today's guest is Carlos. Yes. Bravo. Yeah. Okay. Carlo is the sales manager for a cooperative with a cantina with a cantina Sandoneashi. In the town of Sandonosin, which which province are you in? I'm a sales manager of this company, and, I'm very happy to be here. I know this, or organization, this, in Vivita. And, I want to speak about my company because, my company is, very oldest, the cooperative, in Apulia. He's born in nineteen thirty three. In the beginning, there were, twelve farmers next, here's more customers, around five hundred members with, five hundred hectares, good division. So, basically, very each each grower had a small amount of, vineyard, say five hundred growers with five hundred hectares, it's average of one hectare per grower. Yes. So was that the end of in the nineteen sixties or was that now? How many Pampers do you have now? And about members. Yeah. Now. We have, around three hundred. Okay. And total hectares of binds that they have. Three hundred hectares. Right. Okay. Yes. We produce, two thousand, pintals. Two thousand quid. So quintal is a hundred kilos. A hundred kilos. Yeah. Okay. We produce more, negramaro, premitivo grapes, and more red grapes. And a little bit, chardonnay, cabernet, and Sierra. So you're in the you're in the open you're in an area called the Salento, which is a very hot area of Italy, isn't it on Italy's adriatic coast. Salento. Salento is a little So, we, sometimes, so we speak about Saliento has a little california. Little california. Okay. Yes. We have, two c, yonion, and the Adriatic. See, just the heat. There is a there is a very good, primatization. Because, there is a, the wind, the humidity. We have a good expression, you know, the wine, very great minerality. So you're the heel of the Italian boot. That's where you are. We say that you've tacono. Yes. Okay. So on the on the Celento, so as you said, Celento is really known for Negro Amaro and primitivo two red wine grapes. What are the characteristics of a good necro Amaro? Necroteriks is, that the necromaro is, the whole grapes. The old vines. The old wines. More structure, good color, big body, more alcohol inside. We produce around thirteen, fourteen, and for the primitivo. Primitivo, the wine is very important, because is a big is a big structure and, you can produce everything because you can produce a normal primitivo or tardivo. A late hour or sweet. I think they're very undervalued to passiti, vini, passiti, from Salento, from, I mean, the main wine grape for the passito, is that primitivo, negromero, or both? Primitivo in particular primitivo. We produce some thing, from other grapes. For example, we have, Malazianera. Malazianera is, very often, grapes, more sweet, and you can obtain, very good natural. So what do you drink a passito? If you're having, like, a primitivo passito from Salento, what would what would you what do you drink that with at home? And with a, cheese, what's a good match like for macho? Yes. You can, combine it with, cheese, herb, herb, herbs, she she's, Gurgonzola with the mushroom mushrooms. Okay. Sounds good. And what are your main export markets? In particular, we export more in Germany. Okay. The first market is Germany, and I'll in all of Europe, something in, Asia, and a little bit, in, United States. And what's the total production? What is the total production? We we produce one million, in, the best seller, for us is a primitiveo. And, negramaro, we produce a negramaro, one hundred percent or we can produce, with the blend. For example, we produce, negramaro, and the Malvasia together. Our knowledge is, very bravo. Yeah. You must have very red teeth as well. Carlo Indenitate. Thanks very much for talking to us today about the Cantini Sandoneshe in Sandoneshembullia. In Arizona, I know, well, my, late father-in-law is from Julio. I hope to come and see you and taste I'm really interested to try some of the mothers in there at Pasadena. Yeah. Yeah. You are welcome. Yeah. You want to try. Okay. And, thank you very much, give me this opportunity. No worries. See you. That's you. That's This episode has been brought to you by Vinitale twenty eighteen, taking place in Verona from April fifteenth to eighteenth. Vinitale is the wine exhibition that helped you discover and get to know Italian wine and features over four thousand two hundred wineries. Follow Italian wine podcast on Facebook and Instagram.