Its history began in the second half of ’20, when the Government appropriated funds to stimulate also in south of Italy the cooperation because of the scant disposition of south producers to join in a wide system. And so in Manduria a little group of “enlightened” vine-dressers decided to commercialize a wine of great success: Primitivo. In 1928 the “Federazione Vini” was founded, a society of some producers that 4 years later, on 9 July 1932, officialised its juridical status of cooperative with the institution of “Consorzio Produttori Vini e Mosti Rossi superiori da taglio per la zona di Manduria”.
Produttori Vini Manduria nowadays 900 hectares of vineyard, for the most grown with the traditional sapling system by 400 little working man of wine, that are called “Maestri del Primitivo”.
