Salento IGT Negroamaro Eloveni 2018 - Leone de Castris

Color: bright red.

Smell: spicy notes of clove and red fruit reach the nose.

Taste: a fresh and soft taste rich in pulp is appreciated in the mouth.

Food matches: appetizers, first courses, tasty fish and whatever else expresses the typical flavors of our land.

Pure Negroamaro of a bright red color. The nose comes with spicy notes of cloves and red fruit. In the mouth it is appreciated a fresh and soft taste rich in pulp.
It is recommended to combine it with appetizers, first courses, tasty fish and anything else that expresses the typical flavors of our land.

SOIL: medium texture
BREEDING: Apulian sapling with 7000 stumps per hectare
AVERAGE AGE OF THE VINEYARD: 15 years
HARVEST: end of September
YIELD PER HA .: 75 q. there
VINIFICATION: The crushed and de-stemmed grapes are macerated in large stainless steel vats for about 7 days at controlled temperature (18-20 ° C). After malolactic fermentation, the wine 
is left to age in steel for a period of 3 months. After bottling, the fino ages in the bottle for about 2 months.
AGING: minimum 2 months in steel
REFINEMENT IN BOTTLE: minimum 2 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.