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“Se” Primitivo Salento IGT 2020
Se is a pure Primitivo, from somewhat younger vines than the Es and is the youthful-fresh, but no less elegant counterpart to the Es. Se smells very aromatic of cherry, strawberry and maple blossom. Modern style on the palate, juicy texture, all components fascinatingly coordinated, long and lively. SUPERIORE.DE
read more- Grape Variety: 100% Primitivo
- Cultivation: close to nature
- Expansion: 6 months barrique
- Filtration: no
- Alcohol content: 15,00 % vol
- Total extract: 38,65 g/l
- Total acidity: 5,79 g/l
- Residual sugar: 3,45 g/l
- Sulfite: 62 mg/l
- pH value: 3,49
- Closure: natural cork
- Serving temperature: 18-20 °C
- Storage potential: 2034+
- Allergens: contains sulphites
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“Jo” Negroamaro Salento IGT 2019
Bright, elegant ruby with a delicately brightening rim. Dense and opulent nose with aromas of plum liqueur, ripe red cherry, milk chocolate, tobacco, cedar and a hint of cinnamon. On the palate like velvet and silk, finishing with noble, sweet tannins, a fine salty vein and great length. Quite amazing splendour and yet never greasy or filling. SUPERIORE.DE
"Bright ruby red. Great, inviting nose of fresh peach, fresh strawberries, plus pomegranate and nuances of blood orange, reverberating on caramel sweet, very complex. On the palate with magnificent play, balanced and clear, spans the tongue with creamy texture and elegant melting, comes back juicy in the final." Falstaff
read more- Grape Variety: 100% Negroamaro
- Cultivation: close to nature
- Expansion: 9 months 50/50 new/brought barrique
- Filtration: no
- Alcohol content: 14,00 % vol
- Closure: natural cork
- Serving temperature: 18-20 °C
- Storage potential: 2035+
- Allergens: contains sulphites
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“Se” Primitivo Salento IGT 2021
Se is a pure Primitivo, from somewhat younger vines than the Es and is the youthful-fresh, but no less elegant counterpart to the Es. Se smells very aromatic of cherry, strawberry and maple blossom. Modern style on the palate, juicy texture, all components fascinatingly coordinated, long and lively. SUPERIORE.DE
"Dark bright ruby red with a slightly lightening rim. Intense nose of ripe plums and blueberries, black elderberries, Mediterranean herbs, reverberating with cinnamon and black pepper. On the palate very juicy and with good drinking flow, fine and well integrated tannin, ends on spicy tones in the long final." Falstaff
read more- Grape Variety: 100% Primitivo
- Cultivation: close to nature
- Expansion: 6 months barrique
- Filtration: no
- Alcohol content: 15,00 % vol
- Total extract: 38,25 g/l
- Total acidity: 5,85 g/l
- Residual sugar: 3,22 g/l
- Sulfite: 60 mg/l
- pH value: 3,48
- Closure: natural cork
- Serving temperature: 18-20 °C
- Storage potential: 2035+
- Allergens: contains sulphites
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“Es” Primitivo Salento IGT 2021
Bright, rich ruby red. Elegant, concentrated bouquet with spicy notes of blackcurrants, chocolate and tobacco. Compact, excellently structured and very well balanced on the palate with noticeable acidity 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
"Rich ruby red with purple, dense. On the nose of violets, ripe strawberries, ripe blackcurrants, plus some cold smoke and dark spice. Opens creamy and substantial on the palate, with polished tannin, compact and straightforward, comes in many layers, long." Falstaff
"Pure Primitivo from 60 year old vines and late harvest. No clarification or filtration. Blueberry on the nose, liquorice, rhubarb, beautiful on the palate: crisp, dense, with excellent juiciness and persistence, with a return of small fruit and root notes." Luca Gardini
read more- Grape Variety: 100% Primitivo
- Cultivation: conventional
- Expansion: 12 months 50/50 new/used barrique
- Filtration: no
- Alcohol content: 16,00 % vol
- Total extract: 40,35 g/l
- Total acidity: 5,80 g/l
- Residual sugar: 2,95 g/l
- Sulfite: 58 mg/l
- pH value: 3,52
- Closure: natural cork
- Serving temperature: 18-20 °C
- Storage potential: 2038+
- Allergens: contains sulphites
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“Jo” Negroamaro Salento IGT 2019 · MAGNUM in OWC
Bright, elegant ruby with a delicately brightening rim. Dense and opulent nose with aromas of plum liqueur, ripe red cherry, milk chocolate, tobacco, cedar and a hint of cinnamon. On the palate like velvet and silk, finishing with noble, sweet tannins, a fine salty vein and great length. Quite amazing splendour and yet never greasy or filling. SUPERIORE.DE
"Bright ruby red. Great, inviting nose of fresh peach, fresh strawberries, plus pomegranate and nuances of blood orange, reverberating on caramel sweet, very complex. On the palate with magnificent play, balanced and clear, spans the tongue with creamy texture and elegant melting, comes back juicy in the final." Falstaff
read more- Grape Variety: 100% Negroamaro
- Cultivation: close to nature
- Expansion: 9 months 50/50 new/brought barrique
- Filtration: no
- Alcohol content: 14,00 % vol
- Closure: natural cork
- Serving temperature: 18-20 °C
- Storage potential: 2037
- Allergens: contains sulphites
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“Jo” Negroamaro Salento IGT 2017 · MAGNUM in OWC
Very deep ruby, dense and exuberant in the nose aromas of plum liqueur, ripe red cherry, milk chocolate, tobacco and a hint of cinnamon. On the palate it is rich and soft, like velvet and silk, ending with noble, sweet tannins and great length. Quite astonishing splendor. SUPERIORE.DE
"Deep red. Spicy floral aromas dominate the nose. Then also very floral in the mouth, but with ripe, fresh red fruit and a lightly saline touch on the long suave finish." Vinous
read more- Grape Variety: 100% Negroamaro
- Cultivation: close to nature
- Expansion: 9 months 50/50 new/baked barrique
- Filtration: no
- Alcohol content: 14,50 % vol
- Closure: Natural cork
- Serving temperature: 18-20 °C
- Storage potential: 2034
- Allergens: contains sulphites
stored air-conditioned15132417 · 1,5 l · 86,67 €/l · Price (DE) incl. VAT, excl. Shipping3 units available
“Jo” Negroamaro Salento IGT 2018 · MAGNUM in OWC
Deep ruby red. Dense and opulent on the nose aromas of plum liqueur, ripe red cherry, milk chocolate, tobacco and a hint of cinnamon. On the palate like velvet and silk, ends with noble, sweet tannins and great length. Completely astonishing splendour and yet never fat or satiating. SUPERIORE.DE
"Bright and elegant ruby with a delicately brightening rim. Delightful, finely fragrant nose of rose hips, ripe cherries, a hint of cedar wood, blood oranges, in the aftertaste of wild strawberries. Stretches out on the palate with enormous juiciness and clear fruit, compact and elegant, stretches beautifully and finely over the tongue, presses gently on the palate, salty undertone, long finish." Falstaff
read more- Grape Variety: 100% Negroamaro
- Cultivation: close to nature
- Expansion: 9 months 50/50 new/brought barrique
- Filtration: no
- Alcohol content: 14,00 % vol
- Closure: natural cork
- Serving temperature: 18-20 °C
- Storage potential: 2036+
- Allergens: contains sulphites
stored air-conditioned15132418 · 1,5 l · 86,67 €/l · Price (DE) incl. VAT, excl. Shipping2 units available
“Se” Primitivo Salento IGT 2021 · MAGNUM in OWC
Se is a pure Primitivo, from somewhat younger vines than the Es and is the youthful-fresh, but no less elegant counterpart to the Es. Se smells very aromatic of cherry, strawberry and maple blossom. Modern style on the palate, juicy texture, all components fascinatingly coordinated, long and lively. SUPERIORE.DE
"Dark bright ruby red with a slightly lightening rim. Intense nose of ripe plums and blueberries, black elderberries, Mediterranean herbs, reverberating with cinnamon and black pepper. On the palate very juicy and with good drinking flow, fine and well integrated tannin, ends on spicy tones in the long final." Falstaff
read more- Grape Variety: 100% Primitivo
- Cultivation: close to nature
- Expansion: 6 months barrique
- Filtration: no
- Alcohol content: 15,00 % vol
- Total extract: 38,25 g/l
- Total acidity: 5,85 g/l
- Residual sugar: 3,22 g/l
- Sulfite: 60 mg/l
- pH value: 3,48
- Closure: natural cork
- Serving temperature: 18-20 °C
- Storage potential: 2037+
- Allergens: contains sulphites
stored air-conditioned15132921 · 1,5 l · 88,00 €/l · Price (DE) incl. VAT, excl. Shipping11 units available

Gianfranco Fino describes himself as a farmer. As an expert in olive oil, he discovered in the typical red and calcareous soil of the Manduria in southern Apulia, not far from the coast, a tiny parcel of only 1.2 hectares with old vines of Primitivo in Alberello education and decided to try it also once with viticulture. Gradually, the winegrower, who worked with great passion, and his wife Simona saved twelve small vineyards between Manduria and Sava from being cleared. More than half over 50 years old and planted with old Primitivo vines. In the Salento region, Gianfranco Fino has a small vineyard with equally old Negroamaro vines cultivated in the Alberello system. In recent years, there have also been just under ten hectares of young vineyards, which are harvested and vinified separately. Crop yields are deliberately kept very low for quality reasons.
Most of the vines of the oldest vineyards were planted in the first half of the last century. So at a time when mechanisation in the vineyard was not yet an issue. The vines do not stand there in rank and file, but are rather randomly arranged with their 70 centimeters high and branched gnarled branches. For this reason, all work on Gianfranco Fino's near-natural cultivated areas is carried out manually. Machines could hardly be used in the narrow and irregular lanes.
As an agronomist and oenologist, the ambitious owner of the estate produces two top-quality wines, Primitivo and Negroamaro, each of which expresses its unique terroir, the wines named "E flat" and "yo" - which attracted national and international attention and received the highest awards. Especially the yeast fermented with indigenous wild yeasts "E flat" it is thanks to Gianfranco Fino that the whole Manduria region became famous in Italy and even worldwide. In recent years, this exceptional wine has often led the wine lists of the renowned critics' guild. Gianfranco Fino has been named by the leading Italian wine guide of the Gambero Rosso"Winegrower of the year 2010" excellent.
"yo" is short for the Ionian Sea, where this Negroamaro from Salento thrives. For both cult objects carefully vinified in the cellar and limited in their production quantity, the grapes are harvested slightly overripe. The wines ferment in stainless steel tanks and then mature for nine or twelve months in barriques. They are dense and powerful, but also elegant, with fine structure and are characterized by freshness and drinking canimo. The 2013 vintage was the first year in which the "sea" as well as "E flat" a pure Primitivo, however from younger vineyards, but no less great. In homeopathic doses there will also be a red sweet wine, a speciality whose grapes may dry on the vine, and a Spumante Metodo Classico. You can be curious about both - but you have to be patient, because they will probably not be available for two or three years.
"Fino calls his Primitivo Es. According to Sigmund Freud, wine stands for the basic instinct, the instinctive joie de vivre and uninhibited enjoyment. A wonderful impression of what Puglia can be."Falstaff
Facts
- Year of foundation: 2004
- Owners: Gianfranco Fino and Simona Natale
- Oenologist: Gianfranco Fino
- Annual production: approx. 23,000 bottles
- Vineyard: approx. 21 hectares
- Natural cultivation