Rosé wines are a passion of most local producers. The requirement to produce rosé wine arose from the fact that, with the traditional systems of production, the red ones were too heavy to drink. The preconception that too strong wines are not healthy was recently proven wrong, in addition to the fact, that scientists have revealed the values of resvelatrole, a substance present in large quantities in the skin of the red Salentine grape. The Rosato, for young consumers, rich in fruity scents with a good alcoholic content (min. 11.5° ) was appreciated by consumers, as it represents the link to the red wines, better produced in the modern Puglia oenology. The rosé wines cannot endure major ageing, therefore, they are to be drunk in a couple of years form the harvest. They are served fresh as accompaniment to typical dishes like rice tiella, orecchiette with meat sauce and 'ncapriata of bean and turnip tops

The "father" of Salica Talentino is Negroamaro, a vine cultivated all over southern Puglia with different names: Joinico, Mero Leccese, Mangiaverde and Uva Cane. It is highly exploited since it produces a great quantity of must. The very strong taste of this vine is traditionally diluted with some Malvasia Nera. Salice Salentino is a wine with noble, ancient origins, imported to Puglia during the Greek colonization in the 8th-9th-century BC. It was used for a long time as an ingredient for other wines, then it became a prestigious vine with a personality of a great product, more and more successful. It has a full, delicate and harmonious taste, the "young" version is ideal for dry soups and hard cheese, while the "Riserva" (6 years of ageing or more) matches with red-meat roasts.

This wine owes its name to a town in the province of Lecce, centre of the production area. Copertino is an important historical site, founded after a fierce attack by the Saracens, in the land around Otranto in 924. It was already an important area for wine production, still really valuable, with an abundant and high-quality production, popular in Italy and abroad. The Copertino wine is made of Negro Amaro grapes (at least 70%). The wine produced from these vines has different nuances of colours, from ruby red to garnet, with a pleasant, bitter aftertaste. Due to this bitter flavour and the dark colour of the grapes, it was called "niuru maru" in dialect, which then became Negro Amaro (litt. Black and Bitter). The Malvasia vines from Brindisi and black Malvasia from Lecce, both imported from Greece and brought into Puglia from Morea, account for the remaining 30%.
These two vines have many aspects in common, like the grape, the shape and the colour of the grains, the period of the vintage. The only difference between them is the taste of the juice, which depends upon climatic factors.