Masseria Li Veli 'Askos' Verdeca Salento IGT, 2022

Masseria Li Veli 'Askos' Verdeca Salento IGT, 2022

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This wine is made from 100% Verdeca. We would pair it with Orata alla Barese, or "sea bream Bari style", with oven roasted potatoes and cheese. The wine is floral and herbaceous, with crisp acidity and lush tropical fruit notes of kiwi and blood orange. It is bright, refreshing, and ready to drink! Masseria Li Veli features little-known native grape varieties of Puglia in its Askos line. Not much Verdeca is grown in Puglia, and almost none outside the region, so it's exciting to see a varietal Verdeca wine like this one from Li Veli. Askos is a Greek word for a type of wine container, harkening back to the pre-Roman days when the Ancient Greeks colonized Puglia and produced wine here perhaps from Verdeca.

  • Dry
  • Light Bodied
  • Medium Acid
  • Fruit Forward

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PAIRS well WITH

  • Fish
  • Potatoes
  • Grains & Pasta & Rice

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From the winery: The Masseria is imbued with history.
In the woods close to the Masseria there are visible signs of the first inhabitants: caves and carved rocks belonging to the Eneolithic period, dating back to 2500 and 2300 B.C.

Li Veli is located in the Salento region, half way between the West and the East, the Adriatic Sea and the Ionian Sea, and has always been a land of encounter between cultures and people. In the I century B.C. this land was inhabited by the Messapi whose name signifies “people between two seas”. The Greeks and Romans also arrived here. At the end of the VII century A.D. the “Limite dei greci” was built which represented the boundary between the Lombards to the north and Byzantium to the south.

A Marquis from the Salento region and an internationally renowned economist, member of Parliament of the Reign of Italy, had a dream of Li Veli which he built and caused to prosper.

The years passed and the dream slowly vanished, almost completely. Then, a century later, a family from Tuscany arrived.

Li Veli was built by the Marquis Antonio de Viti de Marco at the end of the XIX century: in this ancient site, inhabited for millennia, the great economist from Lecce created what would become a model of viticulture for the whole of Apulia. In subsequent years however, the Masseria saw that great dream slowly disappear. It was at the end of the twentieth century, in 1999, that a family from Tuscany arrived, the Falvo family, who had already written one of the most amazing pages in the history of Vino Nobile di Montepulciano and Vin Santo. This family fell in love with the dream of the great economist and decided to buy and renovate the Masseria and to dream again that ancient dream of the Marquis Antonio De Viti de Marco.

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