Sé Primitivo IGT Salento 2021

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.