Vinicola di Apollonio Salice Salentino DOC

Noe Apollonio founded the company in 1870 and now Marcello and Massimiliano Apollonio are the fourth generation of the Apollonio family to carry on the family business. Today, great care is taken in the production and vinification of local grape varieties to produce wines of uniquely southern Italian character. Powerful and complex, the wines have flavours of ripe, dark fruits and leather, attractive weight, richness and balanced tannin. The grapes are harvested by hand before going into the winery where, after fermentation, it spends 6 months in French and Russian barrels and 6 month in bottle before being released. This wine is a blend of 80% Negramaro, 10% Malvasia nera di Lecce, and 10% Malvasia nera di Brindisi. It is a Ruby-red colour showing full and rich complex flavours of baked fruits and soft tannin. (12 x 75 cl)

Noe Apollonio founded the company in 1870 and now Marcello and Massimiliano Apollonio are the fourth generation of the Apollonio family to carry on the family business. Today, great care is taken in the production and vinification of local grape varieties to produce wines of uniquely southern Italian character. Powerful and complex, the wines have flavours of ripe, dark fruits and leather, attractive weight, richness and balanced tannin. This wine is a blend of 70% Negroamaro, 15% Montepulciano, 5% Malvasia nera di Lecce, 5% Malvasia nera di Brindisi and 5%Sangiovese. Once the manual harvest is completed it undergoes traditional soaking for 30 (12 x 75 cl)

Noe Apollonio founded the company in 1870 and now Marcello and Massimiliano Apollonio are the fourth generation of the Apollonio family to carry on the family business. Today, great care is taken in the production and vinification of local grape varieties to produce wines of uniquely southern Italian character. Powerful and complex, the wines have flavours of ripe, dark fruits and leather, attractive weight, richness and balanced tannin. This wine is a blend of 70% Negroamaro and 30% Montepulciano harvested by hand before going into the winery where, after fermentation, it spends two years in French barrels and one year in bottle before being released. Ruby-red coloured wine through bottle ageing this wine has developed a mellow style, though it is packed with dried fruit with a lovely chocolate and slightly bitter cherry finish. (12 x 75 cl)

Noe Apollonio founded the company in 1870 and now Marcello and Massimiliano Apollonio are the fourth generation of the Apollonio family to carry on the family business. Today, great care is taken in the production and vinification of local grape varieties to produce wines of uniquely southern Italian character. Powerful and complex, the wines have flavours of ripe, dark fruits and leather, attractive weight, richness and balanced tannin. This 100% Primitivo wine is harvested by hand before going into the winery where, after fermentation, it spends 1 year in American barrels and 1 year in bottle before being released. A Ruby-red coloured wine with burgundy flashes, this generous full-bodied red has brambly blackberry fruits with cherries and spice, integrated with vanilla flavours from the oak. (12 x 75 cl)

Noe Apollonio founded the company in 1870 and now Marcello and Massimiliano Apollonio are the fourth generation of the Apollonio family to carry on the family business. Today, great care is taken in the production and vinification of local grape varieties to produce wines of uniquely southern Italian character. Powerful and complex, the wines have flavours of ripe, dark fruits and leather, attractive weight, richness and balanced tannin. The grapes are harvested by hand before going into the winery where, after fermentation, the wine spends 1 year in French and American barrels and 1 year in bottle before being released. This Ruby-red coloured wine has remarkable intensity and balance. Intense dark fruit flavours are given structure by soft, integrated tannin and subtle oak. Powerful but well poised it culminates in a long and complex finish. (12 x 75 cl)

This family owned 950 acre estate is at the forefront of a small but influential cadre of progressive wineries bent on drawing international attention to the increasingly stylish, quality wines emerging from Italy's south. A highly regarded 950-acre estate in the Salentino plain of southern Italy's Puglia region, Candido features 462 acres of vineyard and is owned and managed by Alessandro and Giacomo Candido, sons of the founder and consulting Enologist Severino Garofano also plays an instrumental role at the property. Affectionately known as the Prince of Southern Italian Winemaking, Garofano is Italy's top authority on the grape varieties of Italy's south and a champion of southern Italian winemaking. Candido's estate-grown and -bottled Salice Salentino DOC blends 95% Negroamaro and 5% Malvasia Nera grapes harvested from low-yielding 30-year-old vines. Together they produce a rich, aromatic, velvety smooth full-bodied red of considerably durability. (6 x 75 cl)

The Cantina due Palme is situated in the Apolian town of Cellino San Marco in the centre of the Salento region of Southern Italy. Here, the hand picked Malvasia and Negroamaro grapes were vinified separately and transferred to French Oak. After ageing 9 months the wine was bottle aged a further 4 months before release. Dark and earthy in colour this wine is showing damsons and dark chocolate on the nose. Surprisingly soft and ripe on the palate with layered black fruit and structured tannins this wine is complemented by its enjoyable finish. (12 x 75 cl)

Ruby red colour tending to garnet with age. Vinous, intense, delicate bouquet; dry, harmonious and velvety flavour. (12 x 75 cl)

Salice Salentino DOC rosso is the most typical red wine of the Salento, the extreme south of Puglia, a blend of the area's traditional grape varieties, the negroamaro and some malvasia nera. State-of-the-art vinification and several months' ageing in oak barrels have given it its lively ruby hue, fragrances of dark berry fruit, full body, and lingering finish with a classic bitterish note. (12 x 75 cl)