Primitivo di Manduria Doc Villa Santera 2018 - Leone de Castris

Color: dark red, almost purplish.

Smell: the nose reveals a perfume rich in fruity notes of plum and sour cherries but also spiced with ginger and vanilla.

Taste: it is warm, full and velvety in the mouth.

Food matches: excellent with grilled meat, tasty baked pasta, aged cheeses.

SOIL: clay-silty
BREEDING: Apulian sapling with 7000 stumps per ha
AVERAGE AGE OF THE VINEYARD: 40 years
HARVEST: first ten days of September
YIELD PER HA .: 60 q. there
VINIFICATION: maceration and fermentation at around 20-22 ° C
AGING: minimum 6 months in cask
REFINEMENT IN BOTTLE: minimum 3 months

Leone de Castris

The Leone de Castris farm, born in 1665, began bottling its products in 1925 and in 1943 it was the first to create and bottle a rosé wine sold in Italy and the USA: the Five Roses. This wine today as then is the standard bearer of this company, with firm roots in Puglia, which has the aim of enhancing the products of the territory by making them known in Europe and in the world. of quality of Salento.