Paolo Leo
Paolo Leo Orfeo Negroamaro 2022
| Denomination | Puglia IGT |
|---|---|
| Size | 0,75 l |
| Alcohol content | 14.5% by volume |
| Area | Apulia (Italy) |
| Grape varieties | 100% Negro Amaro |
| Aging | 3 months in steel, 12 months in American and French oak barrels and 3 months in bottle. |
Description
Negroamaro is considered the main native grape variety of Salento, with an excellent content of tannin sand flavor compounds that give intense but elegant, fruity and spicy wines. Negroamaro is also known by its high content in resveratrol, an antioxidant and anticancer substance present in other black grape varieties but found in relevant quantities only in Negroamaro
Awards
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2022
91/100
James Suckling is an influential American wine critic and journalist who worked at Wine Spectator for 30 years. He left the magazine in 2010 to start his own website and guidebook (JamesSuckling.com). He specialises in Italian and Bordeaux wines.
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Serve at:
16 - 18 °C.
Longevity:
10 - 15 years
- Start up year: 1989
- Oenologist: Nicola Leo
- Bottles produced: 3.500.000
- Hectares: 70
The Cellars occupy a total area of about 35.000 square meters. The first is located in the heart of the Salice Salentino DOC (San donaci) the second, inaugurated in August 2020, is located at the gates of the Primitivo di Manduria DOC (Monteparano).
They are equipped with a state-of-the-art winemaking plant, a large barrel cellar and a modern cutting-edge bottling line capable of reaching 7000 bottles per hour.
The winery is flanked by the farm that owns more than 70 hectares and an ancient "Masseria Carritelli" of 1500 surrounded by vineyards. Read more
| Name | Paolo Leo Orfeo Negroamaro 2022 |
|---|---|
| Type | Red green still |
| Denomination | Puglia IGT |
| Vintage | 2022 |
| Size | 0,75 l |
| Alcohol content | 14.5% by volume |
| Grape varieties | 100% Negro Amaro |
| Country | Italy |
| Region | Apulia |
| Vendor | Paolo Leo |
| Origin | Salento, well exposed to the breeze of both Ionian and Adriatic seas, in southern Puglia |
| Cultivation system | Apulian bush. |
| Plants per hectare | 4500 |
| Harvest | Manual harvest is carried out in the early hours of dawn, when low temperatures and dry weather help preserving freshness and aroma; the bunches are placed in small baskets of 5 kg and quickly taken to the cellar, avoiding unwanted macerations or early fermentations. |
| Wine making | Grapes are destemmed and fermented at a controlled temperature of 25 °C for 8 0 days. Follows a maceration on the skins that lasts 12 5 days, with repeated pumping over’s and finally soft pressing of the marc. |
| Aging | 3 months in steel, 12 months in American and French oak barrels and 3 months in bottle. |
| Year production | 60000 bottles |
| Allergens | Contains sulphites |
