Everything started in 2004 with the purchase of a small vineyard in the countryside of Manduria of 1.30 hectares.
Since the beginning, the company's mission has been to produce wines from 50 to 90 years old vines, grown with the Apulian alberello system, with great personality and a strong territorial identity. Today the winery owns about 14.5 hectares of vineyards.
Es, Primitivo di Manduria Doc, is immediately noticed by wine and food journalists and passionate bloggers ... it divides critics, Es is loved or hated.
From the 2004 vintage onwards, Gianfranco Fino obtained the most important national awards, even bringing to Puglia in 2010 the title of Viticulturist of the Year of Gambero Rosso, an award that in Central and Southern Italy has never arrived before, (other winners Josko Gravner, Elio Altare, Romano Dal Forno, Marinella Camerani).
The enogastronomic guides agree, buy an essay confer to the Gianfranco Fino Viticoltore the title of best company of Puglia, with great prestige for the region and for the territory of Manduria in particular.
Es 2008 was also selected for the G8 Summit of Heads of State held in L'Aquila and it was the wine chosen in combination with cheese, for the private banquet of Queen Margherita II of Denmark for her 70th birthday.
Gianfranco Fino is also one of the founding members of Accademia dell'Alberello.
The association deals with the protection of this form of vine breeding, so representative of our territory since the times of ancient Greece.
The company, thanks to the visibility achieved at international level is a destination for tourists and enthusiasts who come from all over the world, last year was also the subject of study by three Australian technicians, who studied the techniques of aridoculture.
Numerous articles have been written by Italian and foreign magazines, such as Gamberorosso, Bibenda, Wine News, Cucina e Vini, Corriere della Sera, Wemag, Vinum (German magazine), several Danish magazines, Japanese food and wine magazine.
Description
The Primitive Es of Salento is a great Apulian red wine from Gianfranco Fino. The winery's most representative wine, capable like no other of combining elegance and concentration in a continuous chase between acidity and warmth. Jo Negroamaro Salento is an exceptional wine from Puglia by Gianfranco Fino with great personality. "Jo" from mar Jonio, the sea that washes the shores of Manduria. Jonico also is one of the synonyms for Negramaro, the native grape variety par excellence of the Greater Salento area.
Organoleptic characteristics:
Ex: has a dark ruby red color; the nose expresses a kaleidoscope of sensations and scents. They are enveloping notes, recalling ripe fruit, even jam, and oriental spices, myrtle, cherries, plums, cocoa, vanilla and coffee. It is a very long, soft, unforgettable wine closes with a finish that returns powerfully to the fruit.
Jo: has a dark ruby red color; the nose expresses an olfactory profile of great varietal adherence. Fruity notes, even in jam, are flanked by floral and spicy scents in a unique chase, so traced by clear hints of Mediterranean scrub; In the mouth it is soft, enveloping, well balanced thanks to a freshness that recalls the next elegant sip. It closes with a very long finish, with an unforgettable flavor.
Ex: Maceration in 70 Hl stainless steel vat, skins - must contact from two to three weeks, temperature control of grape marc hair, 2 delestages per day. Pressing of pomace by hydraulic vertical press with stainless steel cage.
Jo: maceration in stainless steel vat of 70 Hl, contact with skins must from three to four weeks, temperature control of the cap of pomace (Max T. 23-25 ° C) two delestage per day, after racking 24 hours in steel to remove the coarse dregs and immediately in new 50% French oak barriques of a single step
Acknowledgements
Ex 2021 Luca Maroni98/100
Ex 2021 Bibenda
Ex 2021 Red Prawn
Ex 2020 AIS Vitae
Es 2019 Bibenda
Es 2019 Red Prawn
Es 2019 Veronelli
Es 2019 AIS Vitae
Es 2019 Luca Maroni98/100
Jo 2020 Bibenda
