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)
Region:
Italy, Apulia, Salice Salentino
Producer:
Francesco Candido
Product ID:
44535
Francesco Candido SaliceSalentino 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 SaliceSalentinoDOC 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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Vinicola di Apollonio SaliceSalentinoDOC 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, 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) Price: £108.45
Leone de Castris MAIANA ROSSO SaliceSalentinoDOC Puglia
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Vinicola di Apollonio SaliceSalentinoDOC 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, 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) Price: £108.45
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Cantine Due Palme Rosso SaliceSalentinoDOC 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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Rivera Salice Salento DOC Puglia
Description: SaliceSalentinoDOC 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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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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Conti Zecca CANTALUPI Rosso Riserva SaliceSalentinoDOC Description: This wine has spent at least 12 months in oak barrels and is a deep ruby red colour and with ageing it becomes develops garnet red reflexions. A blend of Negroamaro and Malvasia it has aromas of small red fruits, berries and spice. It is soft and armonic with a rich body and great structure culminating in a long and persistent finish. (6 x 75 cl) Price: £85.37
Selvarossa Riserva Salilce Salentino Rosso DOC Puglia
Description: This prestigious, award winning wine is produced from a hand picked selection of Negroamaro and black Malvasia grapes. The wine has an intense ruby red colour, a rich and full-bodied palate and an array of sumptuous ripe fruit and vanilla aromas. (6 x 75 cl) Price: £109.59
Leone de Castris DONNA LISA Salice Rosso Riserva DOC Puglia
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Villa Mottura SaliceSalentino Rosso DOC Description: Deep ruby-red in colour tending towards garnet. Intense, full bodied aroma of ripe fruits, pepper, tobacco and walnut husks. (6 x 75 cl) Price: £65.42
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Leone de Castris MAIANA Rosato SaliceSalentinoDOC Puglia
Description: This wine is from the SaliceSalentino estate called Maiana. It is a blend of Negroamaro 90% Malvasia Nera of Lecce 10%. Harvested by hand great care is taken from the vineyard to the winery. Here the carefully selected grapes are macerated at a checked temperature of 25-27º C. for at least 10 days. Then a malolatic fermentation will follow and, finally, refinement in oak barrels for about 10 months before the wine is released. A ruby red coloured wine with garnet reflections upon ageing it has a vinous, intense and delicate bouquet. Dry harmonious with a velvety flavour this wine goes well with red meant. 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. (12 x 75 cl) Price: £112.86
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Conti Zecca TERRA Rosso Riserva Leverano DOC Description: Organoleptic characteristics : Color: Dark ruby with light brown tint after aging. Bouquet: Small red fruit and barries, a little vanilla and tabacco. Flavour: Full and harmonic with soft tannin in a rich body Area of production: SALICESALENTINO . Nature of soil : Alluvial, average mixture with a few areas of limestone Productivity per hectare: 70 quintals of grapes. System of growing : Renewall spur. Density of plants : 4.500-5.000 plants per hectare. Period of refining : At least 14 months in french oak and big barrels Aging potential: 6 and more years depending on the vintage. (6 x 75 cl) Price: £105.63
