This Estate history is ancient and modern at the same time. It’s the history of the renovation of a settled profession implemented by people who, acting resolutely with tenacity and a touch of craziness, accepted the challenge to make up tradition and innovation, thanks to the willpower and to the farsightedness of trusting their own work. Villa Schinosa, sized 200 hectares, is located in the neighbours of Trani. It's a fascinating structure, that visitors perceive at the end of an oak path.

Recently vineyards have been renewed. The ancient cellar built in 1884, hollowed into the Stone of Trani, has been renovated introducing production facilities that place the farm in the forefront of winemaking industry. A similar process involved the business management improving final results.

The owner, Don Ferdinando Capece Minutolo dei Duchi di San Valentino, supported by his son Corrado, runs the production, while his wife Maria holds business relations. Together they monitor and choose all the production and transformation phases, choosing and winemaking exclusively their own grapes, taking advantage of the consultancy of the wine expert Cristoforo Pastore.

Vineyards tell an innovative and passionate story, strictly tied to the production of quality wines. The assortment of wine bored from the vineyards is the evidence of the strong wine vocation of this land.
Native grapes such as Moscato Reale di Trani, Bombino Nero, Bombino Bianco and Uva di Troia take their place side by side to grape varieties with strong personalities as Fiano, Falanghina, Aglianico and Primitivo, without ignoring international ones as Chardonnay, Merlot and Syrah.

Villa Schinosa wines are surely one of the most attractive surprises of last years: the Moscato di Trani doc became important among the national wines thanks to the intuition of Ferdinando Capece Minutolo who strongly believed in the best native grape of Trani, giving again a body and life to its history going against a local belief that was going to loose it.

Villa Schinosa, in quality and quantity terms, hasn’t played all of its cards yet; as the capacity of these grounds still reserves many surprises. The “Renaissance” of Italian Southern Wines sees Puglia as a main protagonist, leaving space to high quality native grapes and to extraordinary wines.