Any tradition was non-existent, market demand was timid and weak, knowledge of the method was theoretical although in-depth, we only had the grapes (Vermentino), the technology and a great desire to have fun.
The story of Zinfandel Sinfarosa begins with a suitcase full of scions
of one of the most prestigious Zinfandel vineyards in America
(Ridge’s Geyserville) brought to Manduria and overgrafted right in the Sinfarosa area, alongside other primitivo vineyards to observe similarities and differences.
Awarded several times with the Tre Bicchieri by Gambero Rosso, it is the only non-American wine admitted to the ZAP (Zinfandel Advocates and Producers) Grand Festival in San Francisco.
A Reserve that comes from the desire to stop and remember.
What we were, where we started…
From the old cellars built between the foundations of our peasant houses and the rituals of when we opened the old “capasoni” left to mature a wine that had whispered promises of longevity.
Producing real wines, inspired by a vocation for the territory and the tradition of our region. While indulging in small experiments and innovations, we shy away from the seduction of market trends: our Primitivi don’t have significant quantities of residual sugar.
Our rosé doesn’t have a Provencal color, our Riserva is never less than 10 years old, our Susumaniello only comes from the vineyards we originally rediscovered in 1996, and later shared for the benefit of all other producers
Spazio Primitivo was born in Manduria, in the historic winery of Costantino Perrucci which, from the 70s to the end of the 90s, exported hundreds of millions of liters of bulk wine throughout Europe.
A place where to taste, savor, be surprised, get excited.
Through collaboration with viticulturists from different territories of the region and oenologists with experience in quality winemaking, new productions from grapes that had until then been completely neglected or unknown are “offered” to the knowledge of journalists and importers: Ottavianello, Susumaniello (recovered by Gregory with the Torre Guaceto company), Fiano Minutolo (Sammartino company), as well as new versions of Negroamaro and Malvasia Nera (Castel di Salve company), Moscato Reale di Trani (De Filippo company), Troia and Montepulciano grapes (Paolo Petrilli company) and obviously the zoning of Primitivo (red, white, black earth and sand).
The Accademia dei Racemi includes among its consultants, in addition to Roberto Cipresso and Fabrizio Perrucci, Enzo Moiso and Luca Boaretti. Some companies created by the Accademia dei Racemi are still present with honor on the market. In addition to being talked about for its wines, the Accademia dei Racemi becomes a unique reference in the regional panorama for research, the study and experimentation of native vines.
For the examinations conducted on the relationships between Primitivo and Zinfandel, the history and experiments, as well as the request to update the list of synonyms regulated by the European Union, Gregory Perrucci is admitted as the only “non-American member” in the prestigious Californian association called Zap (Zinfandel Advocates and Producers).
A few years later, precisely in June 2002 after the scientific decree of the identity between Zinfandel and Primitivo, as well as between them and the Croatian Crnjelak Kastelansky, he was a speaker at the first International Conference on Zinfandel.
He gives a talk on the origins of primitivo and its relationship with Zagarese (who has passed away) in a joint session with Doug Beckett (Californian winemaker) and the legendary Miljenko Grgich, an icon of American winemaking for having produced two of the wines that defeated the French wines in the 1976 world blind competition in Paris.
