DON ANTONIO 2016 - Primitivo IGP Puglia

It is the result of an experiment that the oenologist and Senator Antonio Michele Coppi, founder of the Coppi wine dynasty, wanted to carry out with his most prized grapes. It immediately amazes with the richness of its fruits that the wine offers in the glass, warm, yet very soft and harmonious.

Grape variety: Primitivo 100%

Alcohol content: 14.50%

Production area: Marchione district, on the Turi-Castellana Grotte road, Puglia.

Type of soil: calcareous and clayey on hilly reliefs

Training system: espalier

Yield per plant: approximately 1 to 4 kg

Year of planting: replanted in the 1990s, where the vineyard had already existed since the early 1900s

Harvest: in the first half of September in company-owned vineyards and with grapes harvested by hand in boxes after careful selection of the bunches

Winemaking: with an innovative technique which involves carbonic maceration for approximately 7-8 days on the one hand, and malolactic fermentation carried out in 100 hl Slavonian oak barrels on the other

Aging: takes place in the same Slavonian oak barrels for 6 months, followed by at least 1 year spent resting in the bottle

Annual production: approximately 50,000 bottles

Serving temperature: 18 - 20° C

Allergens: contains sulphites

TASTING NOTES

Color: purplish red, bright and dense

Bouquet: quite intense and persistent, fine, which immediately amazes for the richness of its fruits, the cleanliness of the perfume in which the vein of spices deriving from the oak and that of the grapes can be felt mixed with great oenological wealth

Taste: warm yet gradually soft and harmonious, in which the tannin is effectively controlled, the acidity supports and is above all freshness and fragrance due to its stupendous olfactory mass, savory, quite full-bodied, rather intense and persistent

Food pairing: from great traditional Italian dishes, such as baked lasagna, Gualtiero Marchesi's saffron risotto, roast turkey to Canadian cheddar cheese soup

Aging capacity: over 10 years provided it is properly stored

Main Prize: 3 Glasses – Gambero Rosso 2020.