Winery Leone de CastrisPer Lui Primitivo Salento
Red wine
In the mouth this red wine is a powerful mainly marked by the residual sugar.
This wine generally goes well with poultry, beef or lamb.
The Per Lui Primitivo Salento of the Winery Leone de Castris is in the top 5 of wines of Salento.
Taste structure of the Per Lui Primitivo Salento from the Winery Leone de Castris
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Soft | Acidic |
In the mouth the Per Lui Primitivo Salento of Winery Leone de Castris in the region of Pouilles is a powerful mainly marked by the residual sugar.
Wine flavors and olphactive analysis
On the nose the Per Lui Primitivo Salento of Winery Leone de Castris in the region of Pouilles often reveals types of flavors of non oak, earth or oak and sometimes also flavors of spices, red fruit or black fruit.
Food and wine pairings with Per Lui Primitivo Salento
Pairings that work perfectly with Per Lui Primitivo Salento
Original food and wine pairings with Per Lui Primitivo Salento
The Per Lui Primitivo Salento of Winery Leone de Castris matches generally quite well with dishes of beef, pasta or lamb such as recipes of express veal stew in a pressure cooker, tagliatelle with spinach cream or lamb mice confit and melting carrots.
Details and technical informations about Winery Leone de Castris's Per Lui Primitivo Salento.
Discover the grape variety: Primitivo
From Croatia where it is called crljenak kastelanski or pribidrag. According to genetic analyses carried out by Professor Carole Meredith of California University in Davis (United States), it is related to the Croatian plavac mali and Zinfandel. It is also found in South Africa, New Zealand, Chile, Brazil, Germany, Bulgaria, Albania, Italy under the name of Primitivo, Malta, Greece, Portugal and to some extent in Croatia. In the United States (California), it is one of the most widely planted grape varieties, having been introduced in the 1830s well before Primitivo. In France, it is registered in the official catalogue of vine varieties on the A1 list under the name Primitivo.
Last vintages of this wine
The best vintages of Per Lui Primitivo Salento from Winery Leone de Castris are 2015, 2013, 2012, 2016 and 2014.
Informations about the Winery Leone de Castris
The Winery Leone de Castris is one of of the world's greatest estates. It offers 78 wines for sale in the of Salento to come and discover on site or to buy online.
The wine region of Salento
The wine region of Salento is located in the region of Pouilles of Italy. We currently count 851 estates and châteaux in the of Salento, producing 2704 different wines in conventional, organic and biodynamic agriculture. The wines of Salento go well with generally quite well with dishes .
The wine region of Pouilles
Puglia (Apulia to many English speakers) is a Long, slender wine region in the extreme Southeast corner of Italy's "boot". To use the shoe analogy often used to illustrate the shape of Italy, Apulia extends from the tip of the heel to the mid-calf, where the spur of the Gargano Peninsula juts out into the Adriatic Sea. The heel (the Salento peninsula) occupies the southern half of the region and is of great importance for the identity of Puglia. Not only are there cultural and geographical differences from Northern Puglia, but the wines are also different.
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The word of the wine: Private cellar
A term that designates an estate or a château belonging to a winegrower or a family, as opposed to a cooperative cellar that brings together member winegrowers.
