Features
Name:
Es Primitivo Salento IGT 2023
Terrain:
Red earth
Cellar
It all started in 2004 with the purchase of a small vineyard in the countryside of Manduria of 1.30 ha.
Right from the start, the company's mission was to produce wines from vineyards 50 to 90 years old, bred using the Apulian alberello system, with great personality and a strong territorial identity. Today, the company owns about 14.5 ha.
The Es, Primitivo di Manduria Doc, is immediately noticed by wine and food journalists and passionate bloggers ... it divides the critics, the Es is either loved or hated.
From the 2004 vintage onwards, Gianfranco Fino won the most important national awards, even bringing the title of Gambero Rosso Viticulturist of the Year to Apulia in 2010, an award that had never come before in central and southern Italy (other winners Josko Gravner, Elio Altare, Romano Dal Forno, Marinella Camerani).
Food and wine guides unanimously buy an essay award Gianfranco Fino Viticoltore the title of best winery in Apulia, with great prestige for the region and the Manduria area in particular.
Es 2008 was also selected for the G8 Summit of Heads of State held in L'Aquila and was the wine of choice, paired with cheese, for the private banquet of Queen Margaret II of Denmark on her 70th birthday.
Gianfranco Fino is also one of the founding members of the Accademia dell'Alberello.
The association deals with the protection of this form of vine cultivation, so representative of our territory since the times of ancient Greece.
The company, thanks to the visibility it has achieved at international level, is a destination for tourists and enthusiasts from all over the world. Last year, it was also the subject of a study by three Australian technicians, who were studying aridoculture techniques.
Numerous articles have been written in Italian and foreign newspapers, such as Gamberorosso, Bibenda, Wine News, Cucina e Vini, Corriere della Sera, Wemag, Vinum (a German magazine), various Danish magazines, and the Japanese food and wine magazine.
Description
Es Primitivo di Salento is a great Apulian red wine from Gianfranco Fino. It is the winery's most representative wine, capable like no other of combining elegance and concentration in a continuous chase between acidity and warmth. Ample and generous, 'l'Es' is the result of a careful selection of grapes picked after a light drying on the vine, vinified in steel and left to mature for nine months in first and second passage barriques. Es 2019 was the best red wine in Italy in the Gentlemen Milan Finance 2022 classification. This is the fifth time that Es has won the crown of Italy's best red wine.
Organoleptic characteristics:
Dark ruby red, the nose expresses a kaleidoscope of sensations and aromas. These are enveloping notes, recalling ripe fruit, even jam, and oriental spices. Myrtle, cherries, plums, cocoa, vanilla and coffee. A frothy trace then opens to an intense, full, generous taste, whose alcoholic breath is perfectly balanced by a well-defined acidity and unsuspected freshness. Very long, soft, it closes with a finish that returns powerfully to the fruit. Unforgettable.
Storage time:
15 years
Vinification
Maceration in a 70 Hl stainless steel vat, skins - must contact for two to three weeks, temperature control of the grape marc cap, 2 delestages per day. Pressing of the marc using a vertical hydraulic press with stainless steel cage
Acknowledgements
2023 Doctor Wine 98/100
2023 Falstaff 97/100
2023 Luca Maroni 98/100
