San Marzano - Sessantanni - Primitivo di Manduria 2018
- Producer San Marzano
- Blend 100% Primitivo
- Country Italy
- Region Puglia
- Appellation Primitivo di Manduria
- UPC 811018030008
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Item# 83531-18/6PK
Luca Maroni
99pt
Tasting notes
Very intense and elegant ruby red color, ample and complex fruity fragrance with hints of plum, cherry jam and tobacco, slightly spicy. A full-bodied wine, soft and rich in tannins, with a finish that offers notes of cocoa, coffee and vanilla.
Best served with: Richly flavored first courses, red meat and game. A meditation wine.
Description
Area: Very old vineyards selected in the area of San Marzano (TA) and Sava (TA).
Soil: Finely textured residual red soil with a calcareous subsoil, sparse rocky outcrops and intense presence of iron oxides.
Farming type: Head-trained bush vines at least sixty years old (5,000 per hectare).
Grape harvest: Second half of September.
Vinification: Very ripe grapes are harvested manually. The maceration takes place for 18 days on 80% of the mass and for 25 days on 20%, with native yeasts selected in the vineyard. Fermentation takes place at a controlled temperature of 24-26 °C.
Ageing: In French and American oak barriques for 12 months.
Estate
Marzano is a small village in the centre of the Primitivo di Manduria DOC region, a strip of land kissed by the two seas of the Salento: the Ionian and the Adriatic. In 1962 the DOC appellation did not yet exist, and the Primitivo di Manduria was far from becoming a cult wine for wine lovers. Even so, 19 winemakers came together to follow a dream and founded Cantine San Marzano.
