2023 PRIMITIVO Salento Cantine de Falco
Puglia Italy
13%
Red
Primitivo.
From just outside Lecce in the heart of Salento comes this cracking example of Primitivo. Bright and perky this has a fine zippy line that makes it not only food friendly but very moreish. Cherry skin and cooked damson a...(read more)
L&S2023 NEGROAMARO Salento Cantine de Falco
Puglia Italy
13%
Red
Negroamaro.
This is an absolute beauty, deeply fruity, with black cherry, blueberry and plum fruit, all underpinned with a delicious floral note. In the mouth the wine is lithe and supple, perfumed violets, red and black fruits, tou...(read more)
L&S2020 NEGROAMARO Salore Salice Salentino Cantine de Falco
Puglia Italy
14%
Red
Negroamaro.
Carefully fermented at low temperatures in steel tanks, to avoid too much extraction, this perky juice then spends 6 months in oldish barrels which really helps smooth this out and gives the super sleek feel and racy dri...(read more)
L&S2021 SUSUMANIELLO Artiglio IGP Salento Cantine de Falco
Puglia Italy
14%
Red
Susumaniello.
An old variety from the north of the region, a high yielder that is finding favour again. Name means 'little donkey'. Six months in American oak. Mid crimson. Sweet-smelling, a suggestion of cough linctus. Much more mark...(read more)
Julia Harding MW, www.JancisRobinson.com