Gianfranco Fino - ES Salento Primitivo produced from 40-year-old plants in the Manduria area, aged for 9 months in barriques ( 50% new ).
Gianfranco Fino - ES Salento Primitivo produced from 40-year-old plants in the Manduria area, aged for 9 months in barriques ( 50% new ).
Gianfranco Fino - ES Salento Primitivo produced from 40-year-old plants in the Manduria area, aged for 9 months in barriques ( 50% new ).
Gianfranco Fino - ES Salento Primitivo produced from 40-year-old plants in the Manduria area, aged for 9 months in barriques ( 50% new ).

Gianfranco Fino – ES Salento Primitivo – 2021

“Pleasure is pure instinct,” said Freud in one of his famous books, identifying this concept with the ES or the unconscious part of the human being controlled by drives without rules, and that is how this wine was conceived: Unconditional Pleasure. Label inspired by this, it is a pure Primitivo produced from several scattered plots as tradition dictates, the plants are over 40 years old and are located on typical red earth soils rich in clay that give depth and power to the wines. Careful selection of the grapes transported in isothermal cells, fermentation and maceration in contact with the skins for 3 weeks in steel tanks with periodic checks, malolactic in barriques and aging for 9 months in 228-liter oak barrels (50% new) followed by another 6 months in the bottle. Within a short time it became a celebrated wine in the Apulian panorama, a huge leap in quality compared to the past, a void filled by the start of a new course, the scents are intense and impactful with aromas of fruit and spice amalgamated by balsamic and toasted notes, in the mouth it presents a warm and Mediterranean sip, penetrating and elegant overall with a long and unimaginable finish. Pure excellence!

  • Producer: Gianfranco Fino
  • Name: ES Salento Primitivo
  • Grape Variety: 100% Primitivo
  • Vintage: 2021
  • Alcohol Content: 16%
  • Bottle Size: 750 ml
  • Production: 20000 bottles

Productive Notes: vinification in steel tanks, malolactic fermentation carried out in barriques. Aged for 9 months in 228-liter barrels ( 50% new ) plus 6 months in bottle.

Wine naturally contains solphites

64,00€

1 in stock

Description

When talking about Puglia the figure of Gianfranco Fino is considered one of the most relevant, one of the first pioneers in the world of wine to start that process of oenological renaissance that today is finding very solid foundations. This journey of his began in 2004 together with his wife Simona in search of the perfect place to lay new roots in their homeland, after careful consideration the area was identified near Sava near Manduria. A pivotal wine-growing area in the region, suited thanks to a Mediterranean microclimate influenced by the Ionian Sea in which varieties such as Primitivo and Negroamaro reign undisputed bred with the classic tree system. A small plot of 1.30 hectares was purchased that reflected their desire that is, an old vineyard with 50-year-old plants of Primitivo, in the fullness of tradition, with the sole purpose of producing great wines. Past values were not abandoned but maintained and elevated qualitatively by continuing the restoration of an entire area by saving old scattered vineyards through even natural cultivation for the soils without too much interventionism with only manual practices. The harvests are accurate in timing each year with meticulous selection of grapes, in the winery, on the other hand, we return to the present with avant-garde techniques in winemaking and aging carried out in oak barrels longer than 12 months to obtain wines with a marked territorial mark. As a good reader of scientific books, he wanted to create a sort of cycle in philosophical terms by seeking the perfect relationship between the components of yesterday and today, tradition and modernity, man and wine in which their union generates an indissoluble triad composed of time-body-inner pleasure.Gianfranco Fino turns out to all intents and purposes to be the new image of the “Craftsman of the Vineyards.”

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