Punta Aquila Rosso IGT Salento

Punta Aquila Rosso IGT Salento

It’s a warm and complex wine with a ighty personality, generous and vibrant, intense and concentrated, surprising while ageing.

TECHNICAL DETAILS

• Classification: red – IGT Salento
• Grape variety : Primitivo 100%
• Alcohol level: 14,50% Alc by vol.
• Analysis: pH 3,65 – total acidity 6,30 g/l
• Vineyards location: Brindisi
• Altitude: 100 m above sea level
• Soil characteristics: medium consistency
• Training system: Cordon trained, spur pruned
• Vines per hectare: 6.000
• Year of implant: 2000
• Yields per hectare: 7 tons
• Harvest: first days of September
• Fermentation: 10 days in steel tanks
• Maceration: 15 days at controlled temperature
• Malolactic fermentation: totally carried out
• Maturation: 4 months in 40 hl French wood tanks
• Bottle maturation: 4-6 months
• Vintages: 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013
• Production vintage: 90.000 bottles
• Serving temperature: 16-18° C
• Glass: red wine goblet

TASTING NOTES

• Colour: dark ruby.
• Bouquet: this full and enveloping wine shows ethereal, fragrant and rich notes. It displays scents and nuance of cherries in brandy, mulberry jam, blueberry and blackcurrant, humus, tobacco and ginger, black pepper and herbs.
• Taste: dynamic, coherent and of strong impact, it shows fascinating mineral aromas that well combine with the powerful structure of the fruit, the acidity and the pleasant and exuberant tannins.
• Characteristics: it’s a warm and complex wine with a flighty personality, generous and vibrant, intense and concentrated, surprising while ageing.
• Food matches: perfect with “bucatini” in boar meat sauce, “pappardelle” in hare sauce, rigatoni “con la pajata”, pork stew, tripe rolls, stuffed meat rolls with tomato sauce, “spiedo di manzo al lardo” (spitroasted beef with lard) and tuna stew with mint. Very good with medium-seasoned cheeses.