What kind of wine is Primitivo di Manduria?

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Primitivo di Manduria is a key red-wine DOC of Italy’s southern Puglia region. In addition to the standard dry wines, there is also a sweet version of the wine: Primitivo di Manduria Dolce Naturale.

What kind of wine is Primitivo?

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What Is Primitivo? Primitivo is a red wine grape variety that is also known as zinfandel. It is the third-most planted grape in Puglia, in southern Italy. Primitivo makes wines that are big, jammy, and rustic, with high alcohol, chewy tannins, and a sweet finish.

What grape makes Primitivo?

Zinfandel
Zinfandel

Zinfandel/Primitivo
Grape (Vitis)
Zinfandel grapes ripening on the vine
Species Vitis vinifera
Also called Crljenak Kaštelanski, Zin, ZPC (more)

What is the best Primitivo wine?

Best Primitivo Wines to Buy in 2022

  1. Gianfranco Fino ‘Es’ Primitivo di Manduria, 2007.
  2. Gianfranco Fino ‘Es’ Primitivo di Manduria, 2011.
  3. Gianfranco Fino ‘Es piu Sole’ Primitivo di Manduria Dolce Naturale, 2015.
  4. Schola Sarmenti Diciotto Salento Rosso IGT, 2012.
  5. Tenute Chiaramonte Primitivo Gioia del Colle Riserva, 2014.

Is Primitivo wine sweet?

Dry, semi-sweet, or sweetZinfandel / Sweetness of resulting wine

What is a Puglia wine?

Puglian wine is the product of a diverse landscape. Salice Salentino is made from the Negroamaro grape, which in Italian means “black bitter.” Dry red wine made from Negroamaro has flavors of ripe plum, baked raspberries, and spice-cabinet notes like anise, allspice and cinnamon.

Are Primitivo and Zinfandel the same grape?

Not only are zinfandel and primitivo one and the same grape they’re both identical to the unpronounceable Crljenak Kastelanski grape of Croatia, suggesting that both the US and Italian grapes originated somewhere along the Dalmatian coast.

Is zinfandel a sweet wine?

What does Puglia wine taste like?

Puglia is Italy’s Secret to Value Wine. Puglian wine is the product of a diverse landscape. Salice Salentino is made from the Negroamaro grape, which in Italian means “black bitter.” Dry red wine made from Negroamaro has flavors of ripe plum, baked raspberries, and spice-cabinet notes like anise, allspice and cinnamon.