Primitivo di Manduria 'Lirica' Produttori di Manduria 2021

Primitivo di Manduria 'Lirica' is an Apulian red wine made from the area's most typical grape variety. Maturation in large casks is the right compromise for savouring the fruity flavour and rich primary aromas, enhanced and made more mature and complex by a brief passage in wood, which already offers pleasant evolutionary notes.

The red 'Lirica' reveals the more classic and typical Primitivo character of the Cantina dei Produttori di Manduria. A reality of over 400 members, managing 900 hectares of vineyards, more than half of which are cultivated with Primitivo. The age of the vines is 20-50 years and the most widespread training system in the older vineyards is the traditional alberello system, while in the younger plantings espalier is often used. The average density per hectare varies between 4000 and 5000 vines, with a yield of less than 90 quintals per hectare. The presence of so many plots makes it possible to choose the best grapes every year and to always produce quality wines. The grape variety's name derives from its early ripening, with harvesting already at the end of August. Fermentation takes place in steel at a controlled temperature and the wine matures for 9 months in large casks before being bottled.

The Primitivo di Manduria "Lirica" wine from the Cantina dei produttori di Manduria is a wine with a typically Mediterranean profile, a great southern red, soft and enveloping, with very ripe and expressive fruit.The colour is an intense ruby red with some garnet hues. The bouquet expresses aromas of ripe plums, cherries, small dark berries, hints of underbrush and Mediterranean scrub, spicy and toasted notes, slightly woody. On the palate it is warm and intense, with rich and dense fruit, notes of chocolate, carob, an already evolved tannic texture, soft and spicy finish.