“Beneath the ruins of Masada, the ancient fortress in the Judean desert, archaeologists uncovered fragments of Roman wine amphorae shipped from Brindisi — filled with the wine of a grower named Laenius, from that same city.” More than two thousand years old, the find gave Tenute Lu Spada the name for two of its wines, and a mission: to revive the winemaking tradition of Brindisi.
The estate was founded in 2015 by Carmine Dipietrangelo, after a long career in politics and public administration, together with Vittorio Bruno Stamerra and a handful of other partners. What began as a partly abandoned plot of land between Lake Cillarese and the Adriatic Sea grew into 32 hectares of vineyards, centred on a 16th-century masseria converted into a tasting room.
Tenute Lu Spada farms almost entirely organically, focusing on the native varieties of Brindisi and Salento: Negroamaro, Susumaniello, Malvasia Nera di Brindisi, Primitivo, Minutolo and Vermentino. With the land came a hectare of Negroamaro vines over sixty years old, still trained in the traditional alberello system — the source of Masada. Oenologist Giuseppe Pizzolante Leuzzi oversees the wines, while the estate, close to the water, invests in sustainability through its own solar power.
Set between lake and sea, the vineyards give the wines a distinct maritime character: fresh, ripe-fruited, and closely tied to the Salento landscape — evident in the bird names of the Linea Natura.
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