Biscardo Casato di Melzi Primitivo Salento 2018

Colour: cardinal red. Bouquet: intense, with a very long aftertaste. Taste: powerful, rich, long, lingering finish.

Most of the land is planted with small trees (around 5.500 trees per hectare), of which the 25% is cultivated to espalier. Primitivo is cultivated on a medium hilly terrain: clay, calcareous to medium texture, from the rocky nature (karst rocks, sometimes emergent) is rich in minerals. The red soil mixed with limestone and siliceous rocks are present in thin layers over imposing monolithic beds rich in marine fossils that testify to their origins. Wine obtained from selected Primitivo grapes picked by hand during the first days of September. Their bunches are not stuck together and have some small berries with high concentration of sugar. Primitivo grapes are destemmed and vinified according to some very new methods that guarantee a soft processing. The maceration takes place into steel tanks. During this length of time, the wine completes its alcoholic fermentation at a temperature never exceeding 20°C.