From Puglia (Italy’s heel), this is a fascinating blend of Primitivo and Negroamaro, hand picked and matt dried like Amarone – but in a less pruney, more rich red wine in style. And it’s delicious.
Here’s a very badly translated version of Maroni’s 98-point review:
This wine shines for exceptional richness and smoothness, it delights our senses with its enveloping fruitiness, with its endlessly recalling balsamic minty blackberries. Pulpy silkiness to the touch, meaty but still, as a whole, harmoniously mellow. It is a sample whose viticultural and oenological caliber has few equals, caliber that its aromatic load effuses with absolute, glycerinousparamount ripeness of berries. This year’s best red. Chapeau.
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