Primitivo del Salento Es 2022

Description

Still red wine from Salento IGT, 16% ABV, produced by Gianfranco Fino. 100% Primitivo. 0.75L bottle, 2022 vintage. A Primitivo that embodies Gianfranco Fino's passion and dedication, a wine that expresses all the power and elegance of the Apulian grape variety. The vines, predominantly trained using the Apulian bush vine system, grow on red clay-limestone soil, caressed by the breeze from the Ionian Sea and the warm Apulian sun. The grapes are gently dried on the vine, hand-picked into plastic crates with careful selection of the bunches, and transported by truck with an insulated refrigerated container. Maceration in a 70-hl stainless steel vat, with skin-must contact for two to three weeks. After racking, the wine is immediately released into French oak barriques, 50% new and 50% used. Daily batonnage until the first racking. After approximately nine months of aging in wood, the wine, without fining agents or tartaric precipitation, is bottled and released for consumption after approximately nine months of aging. A broad palette of blackberry preserves, blueberries, dried roses, dark chocolate, licorice, damp earth, and mineral-empyreumatic hints of gum. A dense, unfathomable ruby-purple red. The palate is rounded and fleshy, yet well-modulated by a vigorous freshness; finely crafted tannins and excellently managed alcohol.

Details

Perfume

A wide range of blackberry preserves, blueberries, wilted rose, dark chocolate, liquorice, moist earth and mineral-rubber hints.

Color

Deep ruby red-purple.

Taste

Round and pulpy with balanced freshness, fine tannic structure and excellently managed alcohol.

Serve at:

16 - 18 °C.

Longevity:

10 - 15 years

Decanting time:

1 hour

Producer

Producer

Gianfranco Fino

From this winery

• Start up year: 2004
• Oenologist: Gianfranco Fino
• Bottles produced: 33.000
• Hectares: 23

Gianfranco Fino has rightfully entered the range of those winegrowers tied to traditions whishing to save old vineyards and keep their features alive. The vines mainly trained with small bush pugliese system and grow on limestone-clayey red soil and caressed by the breeze coming from Ionian sea and the warm Apulian sun. Read more

Apulia

Technical Sheet

Name	Gianfranco Fino Primitivo del Salento Es 2022
Type	Red green still
Denomination	Salento IGT
Vintage	2022
Size	0,75 l
Alcohol content	16.0% by volume
Grape varieties	100% Primitivo
Country	Italy
Region	Apulia
Vendor	Gianfranco Fino
Origin	Sava (Taranto).
Climate	Altitude: 98 m. a.s.l.
Cultivation system	Head-training.
Yield per hectare	400 grams per plant.
Harvest	By hand, at the end of August. Grapes are slightly dried on the vine followed by a careful selection of the best bunches. The grapes are brought to the winery in refrigerated trucks.
Wine making	Once in the winery, grapes are sorted, destemmed and softly crushed. Maceration occurs in a 70-hl stainless steel vat with a skin-must contact for two to three weeks. The marc is temperature-controlled with 2 daily délestag. The marc is pressed by using a vertical hydraulic press with a stainless steel cage.
Aging	After racking, the wine is put into 50% new and 50% second passage French oak barriques with daily bâtonnage until the first racking. After about 9 months of ageing in wood, the wine is bottled without the aid of clarifying agents and tartaric precipitation. It finally refines about 9 months before being marketed.
Allergens	Contains sulphites