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Rocca Rosso Salento IGT |
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Where it's from:
Italy, Apulia, Salento
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£74.44
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12 x 75 cl |
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Soft & Supple Reds |
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An intense ruby red colour with garnet lights, the perfume is vinous and of good intensity ,slightly spicy. Dry and velvety with a pleasant bitterish aftertaste. 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. (12 x 75 cl)
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Italy, Apulia, Salento |
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Angelo Rocca & Figli |
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70396 |
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Terrale Primitivo del Salento Puglia
Description: Bush vine dry land Primitivo was hand picked for minimal maceration and at optimum maturity. The grapes were received and fermented in closed containers using naturally selected yeasts with a period of cold maceration prior to the onset of primary ferment. On completion of fermentation about 20% of the wine was transferred to one-year-old French and American oak hogsheads and matured in rotation for six months. A deep red coloured wine with some mature hints. Aromas of lifted dried apricot and prune dominate with some spice and cinnamon notes. The Palate starts deep and persists followed by soft tannins and a long finish. (12 x 75 cl)
Price: £86.29
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Tormaresca TORCICODA Primitivo Salento IGT
Description: The Tormaresca estate is owned by the ancient Antinori family who have lived in Florence since the early 13th century when they moved from Calenzano, a small town between Florence and Prato, where their presence was recorded back in 1188. Wine is part of the family history and as early as 1385 Giovanni di Piero Antinori registered with the Guild of Winemakers. The Tormaresca estate was purchased in 1998 and is composed of two properties: one is called Bocca di Lupo in Minervino Murge a 100 hectare estate located in the Castel del Monte D.O.C. region, 40 miles from the Adriatic Sea. The other is called Masseria Maime, 500 hectare , closer to the sea in the Salento DOC region. The wine are produced in the new cellar located in the Bocca di Lupo estate. First the grapes are harvested when ripening begins. After pressing, fermentation is followed by maceration lasting 20 days in stainless steel tanks. During this phase the must completes its alcoholic fermentation at a temperature between 28º and 32º C. After the pressing and the maceration the wine will have completed the malolactic fermentation in barriques, made of french and hungarian oak, where is aged for 12 months. Finally, the wine is then aged in bottles for a further 10 months before being released. This has produced a ruby red coloured wine with the typical varietal aroma of red fruits and hints of prune that combine well with the wood notes. Soft, sapid, this primitivo has a complex tannin structure and long lasting finish. (6 x 75 cl)
Price: £79.34
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Trulli Zinfandel Puglia
Description: A rich, full flavoured red wine with ripe, warm brambly fruit combining with subtle sweet oak and vanilla characters. (6 x 75 cl)
Price: £42.23
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Vinicola di Apollonio TERRAGNOLO Salento Primitivo Puglia
Description: 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)
Price: £106.54
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Vinicola di Apollonio VALLE CUPA Salento Rosso IGT
Description: 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)
Price: £123.25
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Agricole Vallone VERETO Salice Salentino Puglia
Description: 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)
Price: £86.31
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Cantine Due Palme Rosso Salice Salentino DOC
Description: 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)
Price: £65.88
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Francesco Candido LE POZZELLE Rosato del Salento Salice Salento VQPRD
Description: 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. It is owned and managed by Alessandro and Giacomo Candido, sons of the founder and consulting Enologist Severino Garofano who 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. A Rose wine blend of Negroamaro 95% and Malvasia Nera 5%. The destemmed and crushed berries are cold macerated for some 20 hours after which a part of the juice is drained off and fermented in stainless steel using cultured yeasts. Bright and corraline in colour, rich on the nose, opulent, floral with fine fruit, on the palate it is dry, harmonious, rich and elegant with a pleasantly bitter aftertaste. (12 x 75 cl)
Price: £116.75
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Francesco Candido Salice Salentino Riserva DOC
Description: 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)
Price: £62.29
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Francesco Candido Salice Salentino Riserva DOC
Description: 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)
Price: £62.29
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Leone de Castris Salice Salento DOC Vino Rosso Riserva DOC
Description: Ruby red colour tending to garnet with age. Intense, delicate bouquet; dry, harmonious and warm flavours. One of the oldest winery in Italy, founded in 1665 by duke Oronzo. He came into possession of as much as 5 thousand hectares, planted with new vines and olive trees and wheat. Today the establishment stretches over 40 thousand square metres and includes even a first class hotel with sport plants. (6 x 75 cl)
Price: £74.72
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Promessa Rosso Salento IGT
Description: A blend of 45% Primitivo, 45% Negroamaro and 10% Malvasia Nera, is supple and juicy, conveying in a glass the instant warmth of Salento. The Rosso Salento has good colour and a chunky fruit with notes of plum and raspberry. Following cool fermentation to preserve and enhance the fruit flavours, the wine is matured in French oak to give a subtle spicy oak character together with a measure of complexity and elegance on the palate. The Promessa wines are created by Mark Shannon and Elvezia Sbalchiero, the duo behind A Mano. They have both worked in the wine business for most of their lives. Elvezia is a northern Italian wine-marketing expert and Mark is a Californian winemaker. With Promessa, Mark seeks to capture the pure flavours of Puglia's grapes in the bottle.
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Rivera Salice Salento DOC Puglia
Description: 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)
Price: £95.33
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Rocca Riserva Salice Salentino
Description: 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)
Price: £58.11
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