Villa Mottura Salice Salentino Rosso DOC

Ruby red in colour with purple highlights. A strong and definite aroma of berry fruits, cherry, carob and walnuts. (6 x 75 cl)

Deep ruby red in colour with garnet highlights. Full bodied. The wine has a vinuous style with notes of ripe red berries, cherries and sweet hints of spices. (6 x 75 cl)

Deep ruby-red in colour tending towards garnet. Intense aromas of cherry and plum with notes of spices and balsamic vinegar. (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)

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)

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)