04/27/2026
Join us this Friday for Part III of our Italian Wine Tasting Series. We are headed back down to Puglia in Southern Italy, the heel of the boot. This is where we find the grapes Negroamaro, Primitivo, Susumaniello, and Verdeca. Our focus is on Masseria Li Veli, who produce high quality wines at a wonderful value.
From Masseria Li Veli:
“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”. 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.” - Masseria Li Veli
