Parallelo 35 Salice Salentino Puglia

Vinification: maceration of grapes for 70 hours, followed by light pressing. Temperature-controlled fermentation and malolactic fermentation. Maturation in 50hl barrels for a few months. Tasting note: Riserva quality. Figgy, pruney characters followed by concentrated, plummy fruit and very classy finish. (12 x 75 cl)

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

Fratelli Martini Salice Saliento Rosso from Italy, Apulia, Salice Salentino by Fratelli Martini (12 x 75 cl)

A ruby red colour with garnet reflections, full bodied but velvety and harmonious. The Rocca family have been in the wine trade since 1880 when Vinicola Rocca was formed. The company has grown over 4 generations as a result of its passion and dedication to producing quality wines. (6 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, 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)

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)

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)

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)