I Muri Primitivo
- Region
- Puglia, Italy
- Vintage:
- 2023
- Producer:
- Vigneti del Salento
- Grapes:
- Primitivo
Wine Description:
This wine has a deep ruby red colour with violet reflections. On the nose, it has intense aromas of red berry fruit. Full-bodied with firm tannins, it is well-balanced with lots of ripe fruit flavours that carry through onto the finish.
The grapes were destemmed and gently pressed, before being cooled for a maceration period of roughly 10 days with regular pumping over. Yeasts were added to start fermentation, which took place under temperature-controlled conditions. After fermentation, the wine was transferred to stainless steel tanks where malolactic fermentation was carried out, then racked to used American and French oak barriques for ageing.Producer Description
Vigneti del Salento, is part of the Fantini group, founded by Valentino Sciotti in 1994 to produce top-quality wine from Abruzzo and (later) southern Italy as a whole.
These Puglian wines are made at two wineries in the province of Taranto, on the western flank of Salento, by resident winemaker Danilo Gizzi and consultant winemaker Filippo Baccalaro. Filippo, a native of Piemonte, has been working in Puglia for almost two decades. He was originally attracted to the region by the rich, ripe flavours of the grapes that grow there. Filippo consistently aims to capture these flavours with minimal use of technology but a lot of know-how.
The resulting wines are expressive of their site yet also carry the style of Fantini’s other exceptional wines. The whites are crisp and fresh, while the reds are soft and generous. The flagship wine is the ‘Vigne Vecchie’ Primitivo di Manduria, sourced from old bush vines aged in new French oak for 12 months. It boasts intense aromas of cherries, blackberries and spice coupled with velvety tannins and a lingering finish.