Features
Name:
Primitivo di Manduria Riserva DOP 2017 Attanasio
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
The Primitivo di Manduria Dop Riserva from the Giuseppe Attanasio winery is produced from vineyards composed of the Primitivo grape variety at 100% traditional training and pruning systems. It is an excellent Apulian red wine. Ageing in 225 l barriques for 12 months improves the structure of the wine and its longevity, the additional 24 months of ageing in 114 l French oak barriques give the wine further notes of fullness.
Organoleptic characteristics:
It has a ruby red colour with purple hues. The nose has great intensity, opening on the fruitiness of blackberry, cherry, plum and tobacco. Generous alcohol and tannins still evident on the palate.
Storage time:
10 years
Vinification
Alcoholic fermentation in temperature-controlled steel tanks with long maceration on the skins.
Acknowledgements
2017 Red Prawn 
