Torre Testa Rosso IGT Salento

Torre Testa Rosso IGT Salento

It’s a real gift from Puglia, a rare and precious wine, a milestone of the Italian oenology, rm and gentle, aristocratic and generous.

TECHNICAL DETAILS

• Classification: red – IGT Salento
• Grape variety: Susumaniello 
• Alcohol level: 16,00% Alc by vol.
• Analysis: pH 3,70 – total acidity 5,60 g/l
• Vineyards location: Brindisi
• Altitude: sea level
• Soil characteristics: sandy
• Training system: Head training and cordon trained, spur pruned
• Vines per hectare: 5.000 – 6.000
• Year of implant: In the 30s and 2000
• Yields per hectare: 5 tons
• Harvest: first days of October; drying of the grapes for 2/3 weeks
• Fermentation: in steel tanks
• Maceration: 16 days at controlled temperature
• Malolactic fermentation: totally carried out
• Ageing: about 1 year in French oak barrique
• Bottle ageing: minimum 12 months
• Vintages: : 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2006, 2007, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013
• Production vintage: 12.000 bottles
• Serving temperature: 16-18 °C
• Glass : balloon for important red wines

TASTING NOTES

• Colour: dark garnet red with violet reflections.
• Bouquet: clear, elegant, ethereal and complex notes of black cherries and plums in brandy, blackcurrant and blackberry jam, hints of chocolate, juniper, nutmeg, liquorice, cinnamon and ink;
• Taste: classy and harmonious, intense with a long finish, the result of strong and fragrant fruit, powerful acidity and incomparable fine tannins, noble and defined;
• Characteristics: it’s a real gift from Puglia, a rare and precious wine, a milestone of the Italian oenology, firm and gentle, aristocratic and generous.
• Food matches: try with “tajarin piemontesi” in sausage sauce, gnocchi in lamb sauce, pennette in boar sauce, roasted kid leg “delle Murge” , stewed “maialino nero” with potatoes, stewed kidney, ventresca di tonno with tomatoes and capers. Perfect with the Canestrato Pugliese DOP.