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!["Doncosimo" Primitivo del Salento IGP 2019]()
“Doncosimo” Primitivo del Salento IGP 2019
Excellent Primitivo of ruby red color, the slightly spicy bouquet is characterized by red berry fruits. The harmonious taste is earthy, yet velvety and of a certain elegance with light tannin and a gentle final. SUPERIORE.DE
read more- Grape Variety: 100% Primitivo
- Cultivation: conventional
- Expansion: barrique
- Development: barrique
- Filtration: yes
- Alcohol Content: 13,50 % vol
- Total Extract: 33,00 g/l
- Total Acidity: 6,10 g/l
- Residual Sugar: 9,50 g/l
- Sulfite: 149 mg/l
- ph-Value: 3,65
- Closure: natural cork
- Serving Temperature: 18-20 °C
- Storage Potential: 2023
- Food Recommendations: roast, game, mature cheese
- Allergen Note: contains sulphites
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!["Cantalupi" Primitivo del Salento IGT 2019]()
“Cantalupi” Primitivo del Salento IGT 2019
Vivid ruby red. Opens with notes of violets and roses, laurel, myrtle, thyme and small pickled cherries. The taste is juicy, fresh and spicy with long fruity notes and dense, well integrated tannins. From 20 year old vines. SUPERIORE.DEread moreThis vintage has not been rated yet.
The 2018 vintage received the following awards:- Grape Variety: 100% Primitivo
- Cultivation: conventional
- Expansion: stainless steel
- Development: stainless steel tank
- Filtration: yes
- Alcohol Content: 14,00 % vol
- Total Extract: 32,70 g/l
- Total Acidity: 6,07 g/l
- Residual Sugar: 6,00 g/l
- Sulfite: 118 mg/l
- ph-Value: 3,70
- Closure: natural cork
- Serving Temperature: 16-18 °C
- Storage Potential: 2024
- Allergen Note: contains sulphites
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!["SanGaetano" Primitivo di Manduria DOP 2019]()
“SanGaetano” Primitivo di Manduria DOP 2019
Primitivo di Manduria, fragrant of ripe fruit, whose fruit is perfectly matched to the wood dose and whose dense taste ends with pleasant cocoa notes. SUPERIORE.DE
read more- Grape Variety: 100% Primitivo
- Cultivation: conventional
- Expansion: wooden barrel
- Development: wooden barrel
- Filtration: yes
- Alcohol Content: 14,00 % vol
- Total Extract: 34,00 g/l
- Total Acidity: 6,30 g/l
- Residual Sugar: 10,00 g/l
- Sulfite: 150 mg/l
- ph-Value: 3,70
- Closure: natural cork
- Serving Temperature: 18-20 °C
- Storage Potential: 2023
- Allergen Note: contains sulphites
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!["Orion" Primitivo del Salento IGT 2019]()
“Orion” Primitivo del Salento IGT 2019
Orion is a very special Primitivo, he is always fresh and of a remarkable endurance. Dense ruby red with violet edges, the nose is intense with aromas of ripe and fleshy red cherries, followed by spicy notes of cinnamon and nutmeg. In the mouth powerful, smooth and very long. Its clearly defined acid wire makes it stand out fresh and pleasantly from the sweet, marmalade Primitivo monotony that is otherwise all too often offered. SUPERIORE.DE
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The 2018 vintage received the following awards:- Grape Variety: 100% Primitivo
- Cultivation: conventional
- Expansion: 6 months barrique
- Development: barrique
- Vegan Clearing: yes
- Filtration: yes
- Alcohol Content: 14,00 % vol
- Total Extract: 31,35 g/l
- Total Acidity: 5,62 g/l
- Residual Sugar: 6,55 g/l
- Sulfite: 84 mg/l
- ph-Value: 3,42
- Closure: natural cork
- Serving Temperature: 16-18 °C
- Storage Potential: 2023
- Allergen Note: contains sulphites
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![Primitivo di Manduria DOC 2018]()
Primitivo di Manduria DOC 2018
Dark ruby red. Clear, tidy aroma of cherries, strawberries with a subtle shot of sweet spices. Very elegant tannin on the palate, medium-slim body with fresh fruit and mineral notes. Well integrated acidity and a pleasant juiciness without obtrusive sweetness make you want to drink the next glass! SUPERIORE.DE
read more- Grape Variety: 100% Primitivo
- Cultivation: conventional
- Expansion: 7 months stainless steel
- Development: stainless steel tank
- Filtration: yes
- Alcohol Content: 14,50 % vol
- Total Extract: 44,90 g/l
- Total Acidity: 6,08 g/l
- Residual Sugar: 6,00 g/l
- Sulfite: 163 mg/l
- ph-Value: 3,65
- Closure: natural cork
- Serving Temperature: 18-20 °C
- Storage Potential: 2024
- Food Recommendations: barbecue dishes
- Allergen Note: contains sulphites
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!["Felline" Primitivo di Manduria DOP 2018]()
“Felline” Primitivo di Manduria DOP 2018
Primitivo Felline smells of ripe berries, flowers, figs and raisins. Its extremely dense taste is supported by present but sweet tannins and a fresh and tart plum finish. The classic of the winery. SUPERIORE.DE
read more- Grape Variety: 100% Primitivo
- Cultivation: conventional
- Expansion: barrique
- Vegan Clearing: yes
- Development: Barrique
- Filtration: yes
- Alcohol Content: 14,00 % vol
- Total Extract: 42,30 g/l
- Total Acidity: 6,15 g/l
- Residual Sugar: 8,10 g/l
- Sulfite: 128 mg/l
- ph-Value: 3,54
- Closure: Natural cork
- Serving Temperature: 16-18 °C
- Storage Potential: 2023
- Food Recommendations: salami, medieval cheese, pasta
- Allergen Note: contains sulphites
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!["Rifugio" Primitivo del Salento IGT 2018]()
“Rifugio” Primitivo del Salento IGT 2018
Our price-performance favourite at a high level: Varietally pure and juicy Primitivo of shimmering violet, dark ruby red, smelling of cherries soaked in alcohol, chocolate and hazelnut. The full, warm and well-structured taste has good length and pleasing, slightly sweet tannins. SUPERIORE.DE
"Dark, shining ruby. Clearly spicy nose of leather, tobacco, black pepper and very ripe Amarena cherries, fine wood spice in the finish. Expands resolutely on the palate, with pressure, tightly woven tannin, dark fruit in the finish with minimal aftertaste." Falstaff
"Concentrated dark berried fruit, red blossom and leather. Structured, rich and smooth with integrated sweet spiced oak. Fresh herbaceous finish." Decanter
read more- Grape Variety: 100% Primitivo
- Cultivation: conventional
- Expansion: 12 months large wooden barrel
- Development: wooden barrel
- Filtration: yes
- Alcohol Content: 14,00 % vol
- Total Extract: 36,90 g/l
- Total Acidity: 6,00 g/l
- Residual Sugar: 8,00 g/l
- Sulfite: 122 mg/l
- ph-Value: 3,67
- Closure: natural cork
- Serving Temperature: 16-18 °C
- Storage Potential: 2024+
- Allergen Note: contains sulphites
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!["Cantalupi" Primitivo (Old Vineyards) del Salento IGT 2018]()
“Cantalupi” Primitivo (Old Vineyards) del Salento IGT 2018
Zecca's Primitivo from old vineyards is characterized by elegance and refinement, without the outrageous extract fullness often present in Puglia. The bouquet opens with smoked spices, sausage, tobacco and candied fruits. On the palate, beautiful mineral nuances, fine fruity texture and silky, extract-sweet tannins. SUPERIORE.DE
read more- Grape Variety: 100% Primitivo
- Cultivation: conventional
- Expansion: wooden barrel
- Development: wooden barrel
- Filtration: yes
- Alcohol Content: 14,00 % vol
- Total Extract: 36,55 g/l
- Total Acidity: 5,95 g/l
- Residual Sugar: 7,89 g/l
- Sulfite: 106 mg/l
- ph-Value: 3,62
- Closure: natural cork
- Serving Temperature: 18-20 °C
- Storage Potential: 2025+
- Food Recommendations: roast lamb
- Allergen Note: contains sulphites
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!["Giravolta Pozzopalo" Primitivo di Manduria DOP 2017]()
“Giravolta Pozzopalo” Primitivo di Manduria DOP 2017
Medium ruby red. Sweet and spicy aromas of raspberry, milk chocolate, red cherry and violet. Complex and sweet, with very soft tannins, high but harmonious acidity and beautiful generosity and elegance to the red cherry, savoury and floral flavours. A deep, sweet, rich wine with supple tannins that are wonderfully harmonious after brief aeration. SUPERIORE.DE
"Bright red-ruby. Offering nuances of licorice, graphite, and coffee complementing sour red cherry aromas and flavors as opposed to the ripe red cherry more typical of Primitivos made from from grapes grown on white calcareous-rich soils." Vinous
read more- Grape Variety: 100% Primitivo
- Cultivation: conventional
- Expansion: 10-12 months new barrique
- Development: barrique
- Vegan Clearing: yes
- Filtration: yes
- Alcohol Content: 14,50 % vol
- Total Extract: 45,80 g/l
- Total Acidity: 7,10 g/l
- Residual Sugar: 8,00 g/l
- Sulfite: 120 mg/l
- ph-Value: 3,40
- Closure: natural cork
- Serving Temperature: 18-20 °C
- Storage Potential: 2024
- Food Recommendations: salami, meat, offal, terrines
- Allergen Note: contains sulphites
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!["Triusco" Primitivo di Manduria DOC 2018]()
“Triusco” Primitivo di Manduria DOC 2018
Sparkling dark ruby red, this rich Primitivo shows a balsamic scent of dark fruits, graphite and cherries. Plenty of fruit on the palate, balanced and of nice length. SUPERIORE.DE
"Quite dark ruby red; dried fruit, wood ripeness, appealing; round, balanced, some fruit, subtle spice, very pleasant." Merum
read more- Grape Variety: 100% Primitivo
- Cultivation: conventional
- Expansion: large wooden barrel
- Development: wooden barrel
- Filtration: yes
- Alcohol Content: 14,50 % vol
- Total Extract: 37,25 g/l
- Total Acidity: 5,85 g/l
- Residual Sugar: 4,25 g/l
- Sulfite: 93 mg/l
- ph-Value: 3,55
- Closure: natural cork
- Serving Temperature: 18-20 °C
- Storage Potential: 2026+
- Allergen Note: contains sulphites
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!["62 Anniversario" Primitivo di Manduria Riserva DOP 2017]()
“62 Anniversario” Primitivo di Manduria Riserva DOP 2017
"62 Anniversario" delights all senses ... Deep dark color, highly appetizing bouquet with aromas of pomegranate, black currant and a hint of cocoa butter. The palate is enveloped by expressive fruit in the purest harmony and fullness, fine tannin and silky texture. The grapes from very old vines and the additional six months of maturation in barrique give the Primitivo Riserva incredible density, expressiveness and depth. A paradise wine for all those who like it richer in extract! SUPERIORE.DE
read more- Grape Variety: 100% Primitivo
- Cultivation: close to nature
- Expansion: 18 months wooden barrel
- Development: wooden barrel
- Vegan Clearing: yes
- Filtration: yes
- Alcohol Content: 14,50 % vol
- Total Acidity: 6,20 g/l
- Residual Sugar: 10,00 g/l
- Sulfite: 130 mg/l
- ph-Value: 3,64
- Closure: natural cork
- Serving Temperature: 18-20 °C
- Storage Potential: 2028+
- Food Recommendations: game, dark meat, mature cheese
- Allergen Note: contains sulphites
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!["Sessantanni" Primitivo di Manduria DOP 2017]()
“Sessantanni” Primitivo di Manduria DOP 2017
Sessantanni (60 years) comes from vines at least as old and impresses with a deep garnet red and visibly high concentration. The bouquet is reminiscent of a rum pot, beautiful with primary and secondary aromas of black fruits and woody spice. The palate is dense, smooth, jammy and with gentle tannins. Long and sweet on the finish. Unique in its opulence and density and undisputedly one of the most popular reds of Puglia. SUPERIORE.DE
read more- Grape Variety: 100% Primitivo
- Cultivation: close to nature
- Expansion: 12 months wooden barrel
- Vegan Clearing: yes
- Development: wooden barrel
- Filtration: yes
- Alcohol Content: 14,50 % vol
- Total Extract: 36,55 g/l
- Total Acidity: 6,15 g/l
- Residual Sugar: 11,75 g/l
- Sulfite: 122 mg/l
- ph-Value: 3,62
- Closure: natural cork
- Serving Temperature: 18-20 °C
- Storage Potential: 2028+
- Food Recommendations: game, dark meat, mature cheese
- Allergen Note: contains sulphites
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!["Dunico" Primitivo di Manduria DOP 2016]()
“Dunico” Primitivo di Manduria DOP 2016
Great Apulian fragrance cinema of black cherries, dark berries, caramel and toast notes. The taste is equally typical: full, rich, very concentrated and with a complex, sweet fruit in the long finish. SUPERIORE.DE
"Bright red color. Fig jam, red cherry, eucalyptus, and sweet spices on the clean nose. Then rich, round, long, with balsamic nuances to the ripe red cherry and spicy milk chocolate flavors. Seamless and well balanced, that though it clocks in at 16%, it is not at all unbalanced. Closes long and youthfully chewy. Made with grapes from roughly seventy years old vines." Vinous
read more- Grape Variety: 100% Primitivo
- Cultivation: conventional
- Expansion: large wooden barrel and barrique
- Development: partly barrique
- Vegan Clearing: yes
- Filtration: no
- Alcohol Content: 16,00 % vol
- Total Extract: 45,00 g/l
- Total Acidity: 5,90 g/l
- Residual Sugar: 8,50 g/l
- Sulfite: 121 mg/l
- ph-Value: 3,60
- Closure: natural cork
- Serving Temperature: 18-20 °C
- Storage Potential: 2028+
- Food Recommendations: spicy cheeses, meat dishes
- Allergen Note: contains sulphites
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!["Per Lui" Primitivo del Salento IGT 2016]()
“Per Lui” Primitivo del Salento IGT 2016
Grapes from vines up to 35 years old give this dense Primitivo power and finesse. Deep dark colour, strong nuances of sour cherry, ripe plum and dark jam in the bouquet, chocolate and coffee aromas in the background. The pronounced fruit notes continue in the powerful taste. Soft and with sweet melting, balanced and long. SUPERIORE.DE
read more- Grape Variety: 100% Primitivo
- Cultivation: conventional
- Expansion: 12 months barrique
- Development: barrique
- Filtration: yes
- Alcohol Content: 15,50 % vol
- Total Extract: 38,55 g/l
- Total Acidity: 5,90 g/l
- Residual Sugar: 8,20 g/l
- Sulfite: 92 mg/l
- ph-Value: 3,58
- Closure: natural cork
- Serving Temperature: 18-20 °C
- Storage Potential: 2028+
- Allergen Note: contains sulphites
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!["Cuvée Anniversario" Primitivo di Manduria Riserva IGP 2010]()
“Cuvée Anniversario” Primitivo di Manduria Riserva IGP 2010
Deep dark ruby with radiant edge. Animating bouquet of red berries, cherries and exotic herbal spices. On the palate a captivating tension between extract sweetness, acidity and a surprisingly cool fruit component, which gives this exceptional wine an impressive personality and elegance. Blindly tasted, this red wine would hardly be identified as a typical Primitivo di Manduria - here the team around Gregory Perrucci has succeeded in creating a great wine! SUPERIORE.DE
"Bright, bright garnet red. Tender nose, ripe raspberries, some pomegranate. Smooth and round on the palate, unfolds with unexpected elegance, fine-meshed tannin, reverberates for a long time. Falstaff
"Very pale and sweet and charming. Very Pinot-esque – quite different from other wines. Red cherries and ripeness. 2010 saw lots of sirocco and bigger grapes and high yields. Lisa Gilbee admires his courage and experimentation. The fact that the wine was on the skins for so long may have reabsorbed the colour – a technique usually used for Nebbiolo." Jancis Robinson
"Good deep, bright red. Sexy red cherry, iron, violet, earth tones, and Asian spices on the captivating nose, with a mineral component building with air. Sweet and plush but with penetrating, harmonious laser-like acidity really lifting and extending the red cherry, sweet spice, and floral flavors. A beauty, finishing long and smooth as silk; so light on its feet it is almost Pinot Noiresque. This was the first vintage ever of this wine, created to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the first ever Primitivo made by Felline; it has been made only a second time since, in the 2016 vintage." Vinous
read more- Grape Variety: 100% Primitivo
- Cultivation: close to nature
- Expansion: 9 months tonneau/8 years bottle-age
- Vegan Clearing: yes
- Development: wooden barrel
- Filtration: yes
- Alcohol Content: 14,50 % vol
- Total Extract: 30,65 g/l
- Total Acidity: 5,35 g/l
- Residual Sugar: 5,45 g/l
- Sulfite: 95 mg/l
- ph-Value: 3,45
- Closure: natural cork
- Serving Temperature: 16-18 °C
- Storage Potential: 2028+
- Allergen Note: contains sulphites
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“Se” Primitivo Salento IGT 2018
Se is a pure Primitivo, comes from somewhat younger vines than the Es and is the youthful-fresh, but no less elegant counterpart to the Es. Se has a very aromatic scent of cherry, strawberry and maple blossom. Modern style on the palate, juicy texture, all components fascinatingly coordinated, long and lively. SUPERIORE.DE
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The 2017 vintage received the following awards:- Grape Variety: 100% Primitivo
- Cultivation: close to nature
- Expansion: 6 months roasted barrique
- Development: Barrique
- Filtration: no
- Alcohol Content: 15,50 % vol
- Closure: Natural cork
- Serving Temperature: 18-20 °C
- Storage Potential: 2030
- Allergen Note: contains sulphites
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!["Es" Primitivo Salento IGT 2019]()
“Es” Primitivo Salento IGT 2019
Bright, rich ruby red. Elegant, concentrated bouquet with spicy notes of blackcurrants, chocolate and tobacco. At the palate compact, excellently structured and very well balanced with noticeable acid and pleasant tannins. Long and very fruity. A seducer with a lot of elegance and terrificfinish. All our respect for this great wine from Apulia! SUPERIORE.DE
read more- Grape Variety: 100% Primitivo
- Cultivation: conventional
- Expansion: 12 months 50/50 new/used barrique
- Vegan Clearing: yes
- Development: barrique
- Filtration: no
- Alcohol Content: 16,00 % vol
- Total Extract: 42,00 g/l
- Total Acidity: 5,68 g/l
- Residual Sugar: 3,20 g/l
- Sulfite: 52 mg/l
- ph-Value: 3,60
- Closure: natural cork
- Serving Temperature: 18-20 °C
- Storage Potential: 2036
- Allergen Note: contains sulphites
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!["Es" Primitivo Salento IGT 2019 <br>MAGNUM in OWC]()
“Es” Primitivo Salento IGT 2019 · MAGNUM in OWC
Bright, rich ruby red. Elegant, concentrated bouquet with spicy notes of blackcurrants, chocolate and tobacco. At the palate compact, excellently structured and very well balanced with noticeable acid and pleasant tannins. Long and very fruity. A seducer with a lot of elegance and terrificfinish. All our respect for this great wine from Apulia! SUPERIORE.DE
read more- Grape Variety: 100% Primitivo
- Cultivation: conventional
- Expansion: 12 months 50/50 new/used barrique
- Vegan Clearing: yes
- Development: barrique
- Filtration: no
- Alcohol Content: 16,00 % vol
- Total Extract: 42,00 g/l
- Total Acidity: 5,68 g/l
- Residual Sugar: 3,20 g/l
- Sulfite: 52 mg/l
- ph-Value: 3,60
- Closure: natural cork
- Serving Temperature: 18-20 °C
- Storage Potential: 2038+
- Allergen Note: contains sulphites
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!["Dunico" Primitivo di Manduria DOP 2016 <br>6 Bottles in OWC]()
“Dunico” Primitivo di Manduria DOP 2016 · 6 Bottles in OWC
Great Apulian fragrance cinema of black cherries, dark berries, caramel and toast notes. The taste is equally typical: full, rich, very concentrated and with a complex, sweet fruit in the long finish. SUPERIORE.DE
"Bright red color. Fig jam, red cherry, eucalyptus, and sweet spices on the clean nose. Then rich, round, long, with balsamic nuances to the ripe red cherry and spicy milk chocolate flavors. Seamless and well balanced, that though it clocks in at 16%, it is not at all unbalanced. Closes long and youthfully chewy. Made with grapes from roughly seventy years old vines." Vinous
read more- Grape Variety: 100% Primitivo
- Cultivation: conventional
- Expansion: large wooden barrel and barrique
- Development: partly barrique
- Vegan Clearing: yes
- Filtration: no
- Alcohol Content: 16,00 % vol
- Total Extract: 45,00 g/l
- Total Acidity: 5,90 g/l
- Residual Sugar: 8,50 g/l
- Sulfite: 121 mg/l
- ph-Value: 3,60
- Closure: natural cork
- Serving Temperature: 18-20 °C
- Storage Potential: 2028+
- Food Recommendations: spicy cheeses, meat dishes
- Allergen Note: contains sulphites
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!["Per Lui" Primitivo del Salento IGT 2016 <br>6 Bottles in OWC]()
“Per Lui” Primitivo del Salento IGT 2016 · 6 Bottles in OWC
Grapes from vines up to 35 years old give this dense Primitivo power and finesse. Deep dark colour, strong nuances of sour cherry, ripe plum and dark jam in the bouquet, chocolate and coffee aromas in the background. The pronounced fruit notes continue in the powerful taste. Soft and with sweet melting, balanced and long. SUPERIORE.DE
read more- Grape Variety: 100% Primitivo
- Cultivation: conventional
- Expansion: 12 months barrique
- Development: barrique
- Filtration: yes
- Alcohol Content: 15,50 % vol
- Total Extract: 38,55 g/l
- Total Acidity: 5,90 g/l
- Residual Sugar: 8,20 g/l
- Sulfite: 92 mg/l
- ph-Value: 3,58
- Closure: natural cork
- Serving Temperature: 18-20 °C
- Storage Potential: 2028+
- Allergen Note: contains sulphites
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For years it was suspected, but after recent genetic engineering studies it is now known for certain: Primitivo is identical to the Californian Zinfandel and is derived from the ancient Croatian grape variety Tribidrag or Crlenjak Kastelanski, which was already known in the 15th century. The name was originally "Primativo" and referred to early ripening, which incidentally also applies to the Croatian name. However, there is a small difference between the Californian and Italian varieties: Primitivo ripens a little earlier, is more productive, has smaller berries and is less susceptible to diseases such as botrytis or mildew than its Californian brother.
Wines from the Primitivo grape variety produce powerful and harmonious wines.
Primitivo is quite dark and full-bodied, spicy, with velvety tannins and smells of dark forest berries like blackberries, elderberries and sour cherries. But quite typical are the spices that remind us of Donna's Christmas bakeries: chocolate, cinnamon, cloves, gingerbread and often pepper.
Primitivo mostly comes from Apulia, especially from Salento, the region between Bari, Lecce and Manduria/Tarent. One critic described a Primitivo di Maduria as the wine with which he would like to forget the evil world outside while reading a good book in an armchair by the crackling fireplace. There is no better way to describe it.
Currently there are over 12,500 hectares of Primitivo in Italy, and the trend is rising. The best known are the three DOC appellations Primitivo di Manduria (DOCG), Falerno del Massico and Gioia del Colle.
In California there are about 20,00 hectares of Zinfandel, smaller occurrences can also be found in Australia, in France in Languedoc, in Tunisia and in tiny quantities in some other countries worldwide. SUPERIORE.DE