Primitivo di Manduria 2000

Resta (Italy)

Primitivo
Red Wine	Score: ✧✧✧✧

The wine shows an intense ruby red color and nuances of ruby red, moderate transparency. The nose reveals good personality with clean and intense aromas of cinchona, cherry, chocolate, black cherry jam, licorice, blueberry, blackberry, plum, dried violet and vanilla. In mouth denotes a slightly alcoholic attack however balanced by tannins, with intense flavors and good body. The finish is persistent with pleasing flavors of plum, blackberry and blueberry. This wine is aged in oak casks for 12 months.
Alcohol: 14%
Game, Roasted meat, Hard cheese, Braised meat
Suggested glass	17 °C (62 °F)
(Bodied or Mature Red Wines)
April 2003