Negroamaro red, IGT salento

Tenute del Sole Negroamaro's elegant, distinctive character is matched by the integrity of its fruit and by its smooth tannins.

Summary

Tasting Notes

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Colour: bright ruby red.

Bouquet: it displays ethereal and enveloping notes of cherries in brandy, plum, blackberry, blackcurrant, along with distinct nuances of black pepper, tobacco, liquorice, thyme, rosemary, leather and juniper.

Taste: warm and elegant, it shows fullness with a well-balanced alcohol structure, velvety and harmonious, long and persistent, rich of gentle and smooth tannins.

Characteristics: an intense and charming wine, with integral and ripe fruit, which wonderfully combines its important pulpy and lively structure with a balanced acidity and well-defined tannins.

Food matches: try with pork goulash, grilled steaks of 'Chianina', with the tasty 'orecchiette' with horse meat sauce, lamb with mushrooms and sausages, rabbit 'alla Contadina' with black olives.

Technical sheet

Classification: red – IGT Salento
Alcohol level: 13,00% by vol.
Analysis: total acidity 5,80 g/l
Grape varieties: negroamaro 100%
Vineyards location: Brindisi
Soil characteristics: medium consistency
Altitude:100 m above sea level
Year of implant: 1998
Training system: cordon trained, spur pruned
Vines per hectare: 5.000
Yields per hectare: 8 tons
Harvest: second decade of September
Fermentation: in steel tanks
Maceration: 12 days at controlled temperature
Malolactic fermentation: totally carried out
Serving temperature: 16°C
Glass: medium size goblet.