Color: Deep ruby red, bright and intense.
Nose: Intense aroma of ripe red fruit, cherry, mulberry, bluberry, vanilla and aromatic herbs.
Palate: The palate is rounded, hints of liquorice and a continuation of the nose. Strong personality and persistent with a rounded finish.Full on Southern Italian charm here, easy to relate to, so easy to enjoy. From the heart of Puglia, Primitivo hits the spot with its medium bodied, fruit and spice and everything nice in a tight little package. Clear fruited, fresh and soft in tannins it comes on a bed of delicious dark berries, anise, liquorice, spice, hints of fruitcake and dried herbs. Keeping with the Italian way there are hints of savouriness – earthy with a light, smoked charcuterie – a nice tease and adjunct to the richness of the fruit and spice. Tannins are easy going. Brings up comparisons with Beaujolais such is the easy Mottura affable style. Can be enjoyed solo or with food, namely ragù alla Bolognese with pasta or lasagne.
91 pts - Ken Gargett (Wine Pilot)The variety perhaps better known in Australia as Zinfandel, this is from the Puglia region of Italy. Under an agglomerate cork. A dark garnet hue with a crimson rim, this is quite a savoury style with a degree of earthiness. There are notes of mushrooms, animal hides, dry vegetation, black fruits, herbs, coffee grinds and dark berries on the nose. A wine of medium length which is supple, attractive and offers juicy acidity. It doesn’t have quite the length of some of the recent vintages we’ve enjoyed, but perhaps time will see that extend. For enjoying over the next three to five years, but a couple of years in the cellar will do no one any harm.
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