L'Azienda Agricola Attanasio Giuseppe passionately continues the traditions of a typical Salento winemaking family. The wide vaulted ceilings of a late 19th-century building house the cooperage and winemaking facilities. Since 2000, Primitivo grapes have been arriving there, harvested by traditional method and coming exclusively from the estate vineyards, about 6 hectares of Apulian alberello vines in the'agro di Manduria personally cared for by Giuseppe Attanasio with an'experience of more than seventy'years. A production of only 15000 bottles per year, he takes care of every stage of the production chain, from the vineyards, to processing and bottling, always ready to reconstruct the history of the product, raw materials and manufacturing processes.
Description
Primitivo di Manduria Dop Riserva from the Giuseppe Attanasio winery is produced from vineyards composed of the Primitivo grape variety at 100% traditional training forms and pruning systems. It is an excellent Apulian red wine. Aging in 225-l barriques for 12 months improves the wine's structure and longevity, the additional 24 months of aging in 114-l French oak barriques gives the wine additional notes of fullness.
Organoleptic characteristics:
It has a ruby red color with purple highlights. The nose has great intensity opening on the fruitiness of blackberry, cherry, plum and tobacco. Generous alcohol endowment and tannins still in evidence on the palate.
