This is one of those local museums that focus on territory and community: on the tools, images and voices of those who made and used them in a simpler time and place; one based on work, food, wine, traditional feasts, music, techniques and skills.
A special museum, one of those that anthropologist call Demo-Ethno-Anthropologic. DEA museums come about spontaneously, created by will of individuals, groups or associations to preserve collections, objects and testimonials of a local culture.
Our museum is located inside the Winery ‘Produttori Vini Manduria’; it has been in existence for over 10 years. A representation of the ancient ways of wine making for the benefit of today’s visitor in a 19th Century setting! Agriculture as the  identity of a community through the preservation and valorization of local typical eno-gastronomic products.
Our community objectives are achieved with  a winery open to the public; the local traditions are explained as you taste our wine and food. This museum is a bridge between the past and present of agriculture, of The Museum of the Wine Primitivo Culture is housed in the Winery, created to remind the men and the objects that marked  the history of wine Primitivo. A fascinating journey through time, into more than thirty settings in ancient underground cisterns of a nineteenth-century  cellar, all transformed into original environments depicting life in past years.
The Museum offers to  the visiting wine lovers different wine tastings accompanied by food of the authentic rural  tradition gastronomy: during  these tastings food and wines are described in detail as part of the  local history.winemaking at the rythm and with the gestures of yesterdays and today’s farmers.
You should book a guided tour of the museum and tastings at least 7 days before the date of arrival.