Masseria Altemura
Zinzula Rosato Salento 2024
| Denomination | IGT Salento |
|---|---|
| Size | 0,75 l |
| Alcohol content | 12.0% by volume |
| Area | Apulia (Italy) |
| Grape varieties | 100% Negro Amaro |
| Aging | The resulting wine ferments in steel vats and matures on the fine lees for about 4 months, before a brief period of bottle ageing. |
Description
Between the two seas of Puglia comes Zìnzula, the jewel of Masseria Altemura, celebrating the splendour of the coast with a tribute to the most beautiful of the Salento caves: the Zìnzulusa. A rosé made from Negroamaro grapes, which seduces with the fineness of its fragrances and the brilliance of its slender, sinuous body, traversed by a beam of light. Zìnzula has the essentiality of a beauty that plays on precious details and the purity of the crystalline waters of the Mediterranean.
Awards
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2024
4Italian Sommelier Foundation (FIS) guide This has been one of the most prestigious wine guides in Italy for over 10 years.
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2024
90/100
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Tasting notes
Perfume
Color
Taste
Serve at:
10 - 12 °C
Longevity:
03 - 05 years
- Start up year: 2000
- Oenologist: Antonio Cavallo
- Bottles produced: 600.000
- Hectares: 130
There thus began a long period of planning followed by one of actual refurbishment, involving the land and the buildings that now represent the heart of the estate’s headquarters. The total area of the property is over 270 hectares – of which 130 are vineyards and 40 consist of olive groves – thus ensuring substantial annual production. It is a single holding, restored with total respect for the environment and the original architecture. As in the time of the Counts Martini Carissimo, it now represents one of the flagship estates in Puglian agriculture.
The architectural intervention on the buildings respected the original plan; nothing was left to chance, starting with the materials employed: the limestone paving stones, the calcarenite, the tufa and the white stone from the surrounding area, used in ancient times for the construction of the main buildings, were utilized in making the new ones.
Particular care was reserved for the restoration of two constructions that are of historical importance for the area: the massive tower, which will be transformed into luxurious accommodation for guests of the estate, and a private chapel with frescoes that date from the 16th century.
On land where there once grew ancient bush-trained vines, tended and cared for according to the lore of age-old rural tradition - and where the bunches of grapes ripened day after day, caressed by the sun and by gentle breezes - new rows of the best indigenous grape varieties have been planted since the year 2000, in line with entirely environmentally sustainable guidelines.
Alongside the perfectly geometrically aligned vines there are 40 hectares of centuries-old olive trees which, with their roots burrowing deep into the red earth mixed with white blocks of calcareous origin and their silvery-green foliage bending in the wind, continue even today to bear fruit. Read more
| Name | Masseria Altemura Zinzula Rosato Salento 2024 |
|---|---|
| Type | Rosé still |
| Denomination | Salento IGT |
| Vintage | 2024 |
| Size | 0,75 l |
| Alcohol content | 12.0% by volume |
| Grape varieties | 100% Negro Amaro |
| Country | Italy |
| Region | Apulia |
| Vendor | Masseria Altemura |
| Story | The vineyards dedicated to Zìnzula are characterised by a layer of fine red soil on a limestone bench. In order to obtain a rosé of great quality, the cultivation of Negroamaro here follows the same agronomic techniques used for the production of the finest whites: vigorous leaf walls, capable of protecting the grapes from over-ripening and sunburn, avoiding oxidative outcomes, high alcohol content and an excess of tannins. In order to harvest turgid and crisp bunches, it is then essential to ensure the right water supply to the vines during the decisive ripening phase. Such agronomic management lays the foundations for a rosé with great acidity, freshness and aromatic finesse. |
| Origin | Province of Brindisi |
| Wine making | The Negroamaro of Zìnzula is harvested in mid-September at the crack of dawn. The so-called 'lacrima' or draining must is obtained by dropping the grapes in the press, in the total absence of maceration. This technique allows a delicate pink to be extracted and preserves the freshest varietal notes, while minimising tannins and bitter notes from the skins. |
| Aging | The resulting wine ferments in steel vats and matures on the fine lees for about 4 months, before a brief period of bottle ageing. |
| Allergens | Contains sulphites |