After a 3-year-long accurate restoration work, Schola Sarmenti eventually opens its doors to wine lovers - a mid-1800s wine building, abandoned for over 50 years. Not only an old symbol of the Salento oenology, but also an important cornerstone of our architectural tradition has been brought back to its original beauty by the Marras and Calabreses.
At our winery, visitors may admire the breathtaking beauty of the starry vaults made of tuff stone ashlars and pietra leccese. The embrace between present and past finds its higher expression in the unique, thrilling details. Going slowly downstairs, an intense fragrance enchants your heart and you can not wait to uncover our underground world. A last step and you are finally immersed in our wine world – a barrique cellar realized from old tanks where an ideal temperature and a constant level of humidity all the year round make it the perfect place for aging wines in barrels first and refinig wines in bottles later.
A place where you can breathe the air of the past while the scent of wood and the exciting smell of wine give you a foretaste of a perfect delight.
Schola Sarmenti
2019
Harvesting and wine-making:Grapes are picked up by hand and gently laid down into little airy crates, arriving as whole bunches at the winery. Once there, grapes are further selected using an advanced sorting table.
Bouquet: Noble grapes with an unmistakable delicate scent of Acacia flowers and an ever-present aroma of toasted nuts.
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Schola Sarmenti
2021
Harvesting and wine-making: Grapes are picked up by hand.
Aging: At checked temperature in stainless steel tanks.
Bouquet: An engaging nuance opens the way to a range of flowers and crisp red fruits; delicate, yet penetrating, a wine displaying an amazing dynamism.
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Schola Sarmenti
2020
Harvesting and wine-making: Grapes are picked up by hand.
Aging: In stainless steel tanks.
Bouquet: A singular olfactory explosion of spice, leather and tobacco notes with a pronounced fruity finish.
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Schola Sarmenti
2020
Primitivo from young vines
Harvesting and wine-making: Grapes are picked up by hand.
Bouquet: Genuine aromas, typical of precious grapes. An irresistible wine whose elegance draws you subliminally into its orbit, redolent of a profusion of peculiar and extraordinary scents.
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Schola Sarmenti
2019
Harvesting and wine-making: Grapes are picked up by hand and gently laid down into little airy crates, arriving as whole bunches at the winery. Once there, grapes are further selected using an advanced sorting table.
Bouquet: A well-balanced very aromatic wine delivering intense aromas of fresh flowers, tropical fruits with a subtle hint of vanilla.
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Schola Sarmenti
2017
Harvesting and wine-making: Grapes are picked up by hand and gently laid down into little airy crates, arriving as whole bunches at the winery. Once there, grapes are further selected using an advanced sorting table.
Bouquet: An interesting fragrant nose permeated by a fresh bind of ripe fruit and black cherry.
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Schola Sarmenti
2017
Harvesting and wine-making: Grapes are picked up by hand and gently laid down into little airy crates, arriving as whole bunches at the winery. Once there, grapes are further selected using an advanced sorting table.
Aging: Eight months in medium-toasted French oak tonneaux; then, eight months of refinement in bottles.
Bouquet: A ruby-red wine with a light shade of purple. Generous in fruit flavor and spicy notes, its vaguely sweet taste stimulates your imagination. It shows remarkable intrigue in its complexity and never fails to enchant with its supple, finely textured palate.
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Schola Sarmenti
2017
Primitivo from 65-year-old vines
Harvesting and wine-making: Grapes are picked up by hand and gently laid down into little airy crates, arriving as whole bunches at the winery. Once there, grapes are further selected using an advanced sorting table.
Bouquet: From our old vines, symbols of old stories and whole lives lovely devoted to our land, this wine grows out, a true expression of a scrupulous wine-making expertise.
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Schola Sarmenti
2016
Primitivo from 65-year-old vines
Harvesting and wine-making: Delayed grape harvest with a light over ripening on the plant. Grapes are picked up by hand and gently laid down into little airy crates, arriving as whole bunches at the winery.
Bouquet: A symphonic ensemble of thriving red fruits and black cherry aromas, with a variegated, harmonious succession of spices on the finish.
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Schola Sarmenti
2016
Harvesting and wine-making: Grapes are picked up by hand and gently laid down into little airy crates, arriving as whole bunches at the winery. Once there, grapes are further selected using an advanced sorting table.
Aging: Nine months in medium-toasted French oak tonneaux; then, ten months of bottle fining.
Bouquet: Our nose is wrapped up in a triumph of fragrances. Balsamic, deep ripe fruit aromas smoothly glide into a chocolate and tobacco finish.
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Schola Sarmenti
2018 Limited Production
Primitivo from 80-year-old vines Limited production (numbered bottles) 80 years of history flow into the Schola Sarmenti older vines sap. A patient green pruning gives birth to this Primitivo wine, whose production is deliberately limited to focus on its excellent quality. The precious gift of a unique terroir; the work of clever, loving hands.
Harvesting and wine-making: Grapes are picked up by hand and gently laid down into little airy crates, arriving as whole bunches at the winery. Once there, grapes are further selected using an advanced sorting table.
Bouquet: A very meticulous wine making for this superb Primitivo. This wine delivers a heady nose of red fruits and balsamic flavours that highlight its structure and complexity, ending with toasted nuances and strong spicy notes.
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