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Since 1996, through the Accademia dei Racemi project, we have conducted a zoning of the Primitivo di Manduria identifying 4 different areas of interest based on their soil and micro-climatic diversity.
In 1998 the 4 Crus of Primitivo were born.
It is the most common one in the Manduria area. Its rusty/burnished red color is due to high levels of iron oxides. It is generally shallow and lies on limestone banks.
Primitivo Felline Terra Rossa is generally harvested through the first week of September. It undergoes a short aging in French barriques and displays the most traditional and typical characteristics of this grape variety: ripe cherry and red berried fruit notes, balance and drinkability with soft and sweet tannins.Primitivo Felline Terra Rossa is generally harvested through the first week of September. It undergoes a short aging in French barriques and displays the most traditional and typical characteristics of this grape variety: ripe cherry and red berried fruit notes, balance and drinkability with soft and sweet tannins.
It originates from the breaking up of emerging calcareous stones.
The tufaceous-stony composition of this soil allows a rapid drainage of the rainy water but also to keep a good level of roots humidity, thanks to the porosity of the underlying stones that “captures” and maintain the rainwater.
The Primitivo produced here (generally harvested around mid-September) enhances its fruitiness, with black cherry, vanilla and red berried fruits notes. A further refinement in French oak barriques enhances its elegance and voluptuousness.
Giravolta is the name of a racehorse raised in the Pozzopalo estate, who loved to run around the large property. However, his free gallop used to suddenly change into an “about-face” towards the stables, whenever he approached and noticed the ditch bordering an old tuff quarry.
It is of alluvial origin and consists of actual dark soil deposits originated from the decomposition of organic material (ancient forests) and rock erosion. These lands are sometimes marshy and deep, but also fertile and productive.
The harvest in black soil takes place in mid/late September, obtaining a very spicy Primitivo, with notes of black pepper, rhubarb and licorice together with a dense and persistent tannic structure. The aging in French and American wood enhances the mentholated and balsamic notes of this Cru.
It was here that we over grafted the Californian Zinfandel scions coming from one of the most important vineyards in America: the famous Ridge Geyserville. Zinfandel and Primitivo – it is now proven – are genetically identical. Twenty years ago, however, the only way to study their relation was to have them planted side by side.
The still existing Primitivo vineyards close to the dunes are today very rare, being few those that escaped the rush of “holiday construction”. These are proof of an ancient and unique viticulture characterized by very low yields per plant, where you can still see ungrafted vines.
The Primitivo obtained from these vineyards is powerful, intense and, following an appropriate refinement in French barriques, expresses itself with a long sequence of complex notes: from ripe fruit to dried figs, almonds, cloves, helichrysum. It shows fullness and elegance on the palate, recalling cherries in alcohol, tobacco and dried fruit notes that persist in a very long aftertaste.
The harvest of the Dunico (unique in the dunes) – is quite premature and usually takes place through the last week of August.
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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.
