Features
Name:
Primitivo di Manduria PDO 2016
Terrain:
soils with a fissured tuffaceous limestone substrate
Cellar
L'Azienda Agricola Attanasio Giuseppe passionately continues the traditions of a typical Salento winegrowing family. The large star vaults of a late 19th century building house the cooperage and winemaking facilities. Since 2000, the Primitivo grapes have been harvested using the traditional method and come exclusively from the estate vineyards, about 6 hectares of Apulian alberello vines in the Manduria countryside, personally tended by Giuseppe Attanasio with over seventy years of experience. With a production of just 15,000 bottles a year, he looks after every stage of the production chain, from the vineyards to processing and bottling, always ready to reconstruct the history of the product, raw materials and processes.
Description
Primitivo di Manduria Dop is produced from vineyards planted with the Primitivo vine at 100% traditional forms of cultivation and pruning systems The grape yield is limited to a maximum of 90 quintals per hectare but, in the typical alberello cultivation, it can rarely reach this quantity. This is an austere and sumptuous interpretation that the Attanasio winery offers of this indigenous grape variety of the region.
Organoleptic characteristics:
Intense ruby red colour with purple textures.
Nose characterised by complex and intense aromas of jammy fruit, quince, dark peony flowers, sweet spices. vanilla and cocoa, mushrooms, undergrowth, black berries, toasted notes, balsamic and ethereal.
On the palate it denotes good concentration, lively but well-smoothed tannins in the mouth and a finish that veers towards spicy notes and dried plums.
Storage time:
2-10 years
Vinification
Alcoholic fermentation in temperature-controlled steel tanks with long maceration on the skins
Ageing
11 months in steel tanks and 15 months in barriques (20% new)
Acknowledgements
2015 Slow Wine Excellent wine with terroir-related characters
2015 Bibenda 
2015 Vitae AIS 
2015 Red Prawn 
