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“Se” Primitivo Salento IGT 2022
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 flavour of cherry, strawberry and maple blossom. Modern style on the palate, juicy texture, all components fascinatingly harmonised, long and lively. SUPERIORE.DE
read more- Grape Variety: 100% Primitivo
- Cultivation: close to nature
- Expansion: 6 months in barrique
- Filtration: no
- Alcohol content: 15,00 % vol
- Serving temperature: 18‑20 °C
- Storage potential: 2036+
- Closure: natural cork
- Total extract: 37,55 g/l
- Total acidity: 5,92 g/l
- Residual sugar: 3,05 g/l
- Sulfite: 65 mg/l
- pH value: 3,45
- Allergens
contains sulphites
stored air-conditioned15132622 · 0,75 l · 76,00 €/l · Price (DE) incl. VAT, excl. Shippingavailable immediately
“GF” Metodo Classico Rosato VSQ 2019 dosaggio zero
Bright, vibrant pink colour. Spicy oak and vanilla nuances complement the aromas of sour red berries, plums and herbs on the inviting nose. GF exudes a very nice freshness that helps to focus and highlight the intense, dense red fruit flavours. It is more reminiscent of a sparkling and racy red wine than a rosé champagne. The long finish is lively and precise, yet multi-layered and complex. Unfortunately, only 3,000 bottles of this masterpiece are produced each year. SUPERIORE.DE
read more- Grape Variety: 100% Negroamaro
- Cultivation: close to nature
- Expansion: > 36 months on the lees
- Filtration: yes
- Alcohol content: 12,00 % vol
- Serving temperature: 8‑10 °C
- Storage potential: 2028+
- Closure: natural cork
- Total extract: 26,55 g/l
- Total acidity: 7,25 g/l
- Residual sugar: < 1,00 g/l
- Sulfite: 92 mg/l
- pH value: 3,33
- Allergens
contains sulphites
stored air-conditioned15133119 · 0,75 l · 76,00 €/l · Price (DE) incl. VAT, excl. Shipping< 24 units available
“Jo” Negroamaro Salento IGT 2021
Brilliant, elegant ruby colour with a delicately brightening rim. Dense and opulent on the nose with aromas of plum liqueur, ripe red cherry, milk chocolate, tobacco, cedar and a hint of cinnamon. Like velvet and silk on the palate, finishing with noble, sweet tannins, a fine salty vein and great length. Quite astonishing splendour and yet never fat or saturating. SUPERIORE.DE
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
- Serving temperature: 18‑20 °C
- Storage potential: 2037+
- Closure: natural cork
- Allergens
contains sulphites
stored air-conditioned15132121 · 0,75 l · 79,99 €/l · Price (DE) incl. VAT, excl. Shipping< 24 units available
“Es” Primitivo Salento IGT 2022
Bright, rich ruby red colour. Elegant, concentrated bouquet with spicy notes of blackcurrant, chocolate and tobacco. Compact on the palate, excellently structured and very well balanced with noticeable acidity and pleasant tannins. Long and very fruity. A seducer with great elegance and a 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
- Filtration: no
- Alcohol content: 16,00 % vol
- Serving temperature: 18‑20 °C
- Storage potential: 2039+
- Closure: natural cork
- Total extract: 39,52 g/l
- Total acidity: 5,96 g/l
- Residual sugar: 2,79 g/l
- Sulfite: 62 mg/l
- pH value: 3,50
- Allergens
contains sulphites
stored air-conditioned15132222 · 0,75 l · 89,33 €/l · Price (DE) incl. VAT, excl. Shippingavailable immediately
“Jo” Negroamaro Salento IGT 2022
Bright, elegant ruby colour with a delicately brightening rim. Dense and opulent on the nose with aromas of plum liqueur, ripe red cherry, milk chocolate, tobacco, cedar wood and a hint of cinnamon. The palate is like velvet and silk, finishing with noble, sweet tannins, a fine salty vein and great length. Quite astonishing splendour and yet never fat or saturating. SUPERIORE.DE
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
- Serving temperature: 18‑20 °C
- Storage potential: 2038+
- Closure: natural cork
- Allergens
contains sulphites
stored air-conditioned15132122 · 0,75 l · 92,00 €/l · Price (DE) incl. VAT, excl. Shippingavailable immediately
“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
read more- Grape Variety: 100% Primitivo
- Cultivation: close to nature
- Expansion: 6 months barrique
- Filtration: no
- Alcohol content: 15,00 % vol
- Serving temperature: 18‑20 °C
- Storage potential: 2037+
- Closure: natural cork
- 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
- Allergens
contains sulphites
stored air-conditioned15132921 · 1,5 l · 79,33 €/l · Price (DE) incl. VAT, excl. Shipping6 units available
“GF” Metodo Classico Rosato VSQ 2017 dosaggio zero · MAGNUM in OWC
Bright, vibrant pink colour. Spicy oak and vanilla nuances complement the aromas of sour red berries, plums and herbs on the inviting nose. GF exudes a very nice freshness that helps to focus and highlight the intense, dense red fruit flavours. It is more reminiscent of a sparkling and racy red wine than a rosé champagne. The long finish is lively and precise, yet multi-layered and complex. Unfortunately, only 3,000 bottles of this masterpiece are produced each year. SUPERIORE.DE
read more- Grape Variety: 100% Negroamaro
- Cultivation: close to nature
- Expansion: > 36 months on the lees
- Filtration: yes
- Alcohol content: 12,50 % vol
- Serving temperature: 8‑10 °C
- Storage potential: 2028+
- Closure: natural cork
- Total extract: 27,54 g/l
- Total acidity: 7,05 g/l
- Residual sugar: < 1,00 g/l
- Sulfite: 89 mg/l
- pH value: 3,35
- Allergens
contains sulphites
stored air-conditioned15133217 · 1,5 l · 86,00 €/l · Price (DE) incl. VAT, excl. Shipping5 units available
“Jo” Negroamaro Salento IGT 2021 · MAGNUM in OWC
Bright, elegant ruby colour with a delicately brightening rim. Dense and opulent on the nose with aromas of plum liqueur, ripe red cherry, milk chocolate, tobacco, cedar and a hint of cinnamon. Like velvet and silk on the palate, finishing with noble, sweet tannins, a fine salty vein and great length. Quite astonishing splendour and yet never fat or saturating. SUPERIORE.DE
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
- Serving temperature: 18‑20 °C
- Storage potential: 2037+
- Closure: natural cork
- Allergens
contains sulphites
stored air-conditioned15132421 · 1,5 l · 99,33 €/l · Price (DE) incl. VAT, excl. Shipping6 units available
“Es Red” Primitivo Salento IGT 2019 · 0,75l in OWC
The "it" according to Freud: It is instinct and unbridled passion (with which this wine was also made) without conditions, without rules, beyond space and time, logic and morality. It knows neither good nor evil. It is subject to only one principle: absolute pleasure.
read more- Grape Variety: 100% Primitivo
- Cultivation: conventional
- Expansion: 12/48 months barrique/bottle ageing
- Filtration: no
- Alcohol content: 16,50 % vol
- Serving temperature: 18‑20 °C
- Storage potential: 2040+
- Closure: natural cork
- Total extract: 39,05 g/l
- Total acidity: 6,05 g/l
- Residual sugar: 3,15 g/l
- Sulfite: 66 mg/l
- pH value: 3,47
- Allergens
contains sulphites
stored air-conditioned15133019 · 0,75 l · 198,67 €/l · Price (DE) incl. VAT, excl. Shipping11 units available
Limitation of 3 articles per customer“Es” Primitivo Salento IGT 2022 · MAGNUM in OWC
Bright, rich ruby red colour. Elegant, concentrated bouquet with spicy notes of blackcurrant, chocolate and tobacco. Compact on the palate, excellently structured and very well balanced with noticeable acidity and pleasant tannins. Long and very fruity. A seducer with great elegance and a 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
- Filtration: no
- Alcohol content: 16,00 % vol
- Serving temperature: 18‑20 °C
- Storage potential: 2041+
- Closure: natural cork
- Total extract: 39,52 g/l
- Total acidity: 5,96 g/l
- Residual sugar: 2,79 g/l
- Sulfite: 62 mg/l
- pH value: 3,50
- Allergens
contains sulphites
stored air-conditioned15132322 · 1,5 l · 106,00 €/l · Price (DE) incl. VAT, excl. Shipping4 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