FIVE PARCELS

Set between the Adriatic and the Ionian Seas, Tenuta Liliana’s 13 hectares of vineyards form a
succession chain that serves as an integral component of the countryside of southern Puglia’s
Salento peninsula. The Mediterranean fashions the rhythms and colours of this wind-swept land, but man’s love has rendered it a mosaic of fields, paths, and dry-stone walls that constitute its true beauty.

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SPECCHIA

The Specchia vineyard lies on the Sant’Eleuterio hill at an elevation of 200 metres, one of the highest points in the Salento, beset by untiring winds. Encircled by dry-stone walls and with a traditional hut, or “pagliara,” at its centre offering a bit of shade, its limestone soil is rich in clay, which ensures good groundwater reserves for the vines in time of heat and drought.

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LEMBO

Dense Mediterranean scrub hides this vineyard, but it affords a view of the sunset on the blue line of the horizon. The plots of Cabernet Sauvignon and Sauvignon Blanc are studded here and there by almond trees, whose white blossoms in the spring enliven the severe geometry of the vine-rows. The vineyard, planted in reddish earth rich in jagged limestone, forms a broad fan that slightly bows to the nearby sea.

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MITRIANO

This extensive vineyard, lying at some 1,000 metres from the sea at Gallipoli, enjoys silty clay soils with admixtures of fossil shells and sand. The sea can be seen only from the very top of the slope, but the air all around is redolent of its presence. The salt-laden breezes caress Cabernet Sauvignon and a few rows of Cabernet Franc and Petit Verdot that rise high above the whitish soils to protect themselves from the waves of summer heat. All around are fields of hay, wild fennel, and cicadas.

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PIZZIFERRO

Lines of sentinel cypresses watch over this vineyard of Cabernet Sauvignon planted in soils with a “unique experience”: for millennia, the sea has embraced these white, sandy soils in its advance, only to retreat again, leaving a testament of ancient shells into which the vines now send their roots. Now level and loose, the soil retains scarce rainwater and releases it to the vines in time of need, creating a micro-ecosystem of rare equilibrium.

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RISCHIAZZI

Rischiazzi is comprised of three small blocks that closely hug the winecellar. An ancient faultline determines the soils, which range from the soft tuff nearest the cellar, planted to 1,500 bush-trained Cabernet vines, to the limestone rock farther away. This latter area, about one hectare, hosts a few rows of Petit Verdot as well.