Primitivo di Manduria Tema Riserva

Producer:
Cantolio Cantine del Primitivo di Manduria
Region:
Puglia
Grape:
Primitivo di Manduria
Classification:
DOC
Vintage:
2011
Capacity:
0.75 l

Dry red wine from the indigenous Primitivo di Manduria grape. Carefully created Riserva from the vintage 2011 certainly is the best wine from the Cantolio cooperative. The emblematic bottle beautifully complements “genetic nobility” of Primitivo di Manduria (as the producer declares). Aged for many months in small French oak barrels brings out the huge potential of Southern Italy’s great wine. Supple and concentrated, rich in aromas, full-bodied and velvety not without reason gets recognition of wine connoisseurs. To appreciate it properly, this Riserva should be tasted paired with beef steak or aromatic game.

Details

Color: intense ruby red.

Aroma: rich, complex, notes of forest fruit, cocoa, fruit jam.

Flavor: full, warm, velvety.

Food matching: excellent with meat dishes, mainly beef and game.

Serving temperature: 16°/18°C.

Alcohol content: 15%.

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