In 1788, during the reign of Ferdinand IV Bourbon, Vincenzo Monte decided to build a manor in Borgo San Vito in the small village of Gioia del Colle. Still nowadays an ancient rupestrian inscription on the entrance of the family Colapinto private chapel (consecrated to Santa Sofia) bears witness of this occurrence. Agriculture and breeding have always been the main activities of this manor, especially wine growing and vinification, and an entire wing of the manor was fitted out for this purpose.

Until 1970 wine growing and producing were successfully practised thanks to the care and passion for this activity of two good friends, Luigi Filippo Colapinto and Leonardo Petrera. But sometimes care and passion are not enough to go on, so in the first Seventies they broke off the activity. In 2004, more than thirty years later, the grandson of Luigi Filippo Colapinto and his namesake, together with the son of Leonardo Petrera, Nicola, decided to resume wine growing and producing, creating TERRA JOVIA (Terra Jovia Estate).