Full Body, Dry (Primitivo). Salento IGT. Alc 16%.
95/100 Falstaff; 92/100 Wine Spectator; 90/100 Wine Enthusiast; "Winemaker of the year 2010" Gambero Rosso.
High-end Primitivo (Zinfandel) Riserva from award-winning cult winery in Manduria, Apulia.
WINERY NOTES:
"Es according to Freud: It is instinct and unbridled passion (the same with which this wine was produced) without conditions, without rules, beyond space and time, logic and morality. He knows neither good nor evil. The Id is subject to a single principle: "PLEASURE".
IN THE VINEYARD: Little use of chemistry, preferably using cover products to combat the main ampelopathies of the vine, mowing of weeds, no irrigation and no fertilization. HARVEST: Manual harvest in plastic cases with careful selection of the bunches, transport by refrigerator trucks. IN THE CELLAR: Sorting table, destemming, soft crushing of the grapes, maceration in stainless steel tanks, from 2 to 3 weeks contact of the skins with the must, control of the temperature of the marc cap, 2 daily délestages, soft pressing of the skins with hydraulic vertical crusher. After approx.- 12 months of oak ageing wine is bottled with no aid of fining agents and tartaric precipitations and released to the market after approx. 48 months of bottle ageing."
NB: Limited stock - maximum two bottles per customer (until larger stock available).
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