Primitivo, Salento, PepeNero, Apulia, Cignomoro, IGT, 13.5% 0.75L

Product detailed description

Red wine made from grapes grown in Salento. The bouquet offers the aroma of small red fruits. Fresh and harmonious. Intense and brilliant ruby ​​color. The bouquet offers the aroma of small red and black fruits, dominated by notes of cherries and blueberries with oak spices, candle smoke, and cedar supporting the fruity notes. Fresh and harmonious, it is a velvety wine with fine tannins and a prolonged finish. The grapes are harvested by hand in the first days of September from vineyards cultivated by the Guyot system in Salento. The density is 4,500 plants per hectare, with a production of about 2,500 grams per plant.  Ripened in medium  fired  American oak barrels for about 4 months

PRIMITIVO  is the name of the variety that is grown in the  PUGLIA region (Apuglia in Czech). The name is probably derived from biological cycles. This is the variety that blooms first and is also the first to be harvested, at the beginning of the week of September. In Italian it is said "primo" and from that derives the name "primitivo". Genetically identical to the California Zinfandel variety. The Primitivo variety is probably of Croatian origin, similar to varieties such as Crljenka Kaštelanski, Tribidrag or Plavac Mali grown mainly on the Pelješač peninsula.

Why do I like it?

The distinct taste will dazzle fans of southern Italian wines and especially the Primitivo variety. Very interesting ratio between quality and price. Distinct notes of red fruit, jam and baked plums. 

Manufacturer

When they founded Cignomoro in 2008, they had  clear ideas: to question the homologation of flavors and breathe life into Apulian wines that are unique, elegant and harmonious with every sip. This is also why  are called  "boutique winery": every single bottle is part of a limited production, almost pampered, personally cared for from the bunch to the sip to amaze the taste buds that are not satisfied. They decided  believe in the region of Apulia  and in the most authentic wine: so the most modern winemaking techniques adopt ancient practices that are almost rituals, such as manual grape harvesting. With honor, they feel like courageous guardians of an ancient land, without compromise. Cignomoro is a boutique winery in the heart of Puglia.  The emphasis is on  the care, the uniqueness of the artisanal procedures carried out with love and observed in every single process, from the vineyard to the glass. Cignomoro wine soon stands out for its elegance, balance, finesse, harmony, with which it makes its uniqueness stand out. Cignomoro is not just a winery, it is a method, a choice and a cestopism. Because they decided to take  take us by the hand on a journey through time, in search of ancient flavors, in an experience based on love and passion for the land of Puglia and its most authentic and too often forgotten flavors.

Salento and red wines: if vines were already grown in Salento in the countryside of Manduria in the seventh to sixth centuries BC, there is a reason: the "mare nostrum" with its perfect microclimate caresses the grapes and turns them into a masterpiece. Therefore, it has  the vines have their roots in the "red land" overlooking the Mediterranean Sea and produce red wines that are a synthesis of this perfect marriage. Try closing your eyes and tasting a glass of Primitiva, Negroamara or Susumaniella: close your eyes and you will feel the sun, the sea, the vast trees, the red and calcareous soil and the people who have been cultivating it expertly for millennia.

Apulia and its white wines, a story of wonder: The Itria Valley, the pearl of Apulia, is a place where you can embrace the sea with a single glance from the hill: a poetry that naturally permeates every glass of wine grown in this land