2017 San Marzano Negroamaro F Rosso Salento, Puglia

In 1962  9  vine  growers  from  San  Marzano,  whose families   had   farmed   the   land   for generations, combined   their   efforts   to   establish   “Cantine   San Marzano”. Through the decades this coooperative has grown significantly, attracting over 1200 vine growers, using  modern  and  technologically  advanced  plants and  producing  elegant  wines  without  forgetting  the obligation to the very old Apulian wine tradition. Nowadays the melding of  time  honoured  tradition,  passion  and  sensibility with contemporary techniques enables us to produce wines with distinctive varietal and regional characters, marvellously reflecting individual attention, seasonal variation and local terroir.

We are in Apulia, in the heart of the acclaimed d.o.p. “Primitivo di Manduria” area, a strip of land between two seas, the Ionian and the Adriatic; countries and landscapes in the province of Taranto and Brindisi where vines and olive trees flourish side by side on a red soil surface. The vineyard’s soils and the Mediterranean terroir play a fundamental role in the production of high quality wines. Our region climate is extreme, the condition difficult since life stands the drought, the frost and the sirocco winds. But in the hands of our passionate winemakers even the fruits of our oldest bush vines become full-bodied and elegant wines, capable of considering ageing. Wines that can enrich the tasting experience beyond the most ambitious expectations

98 points Luca Maroni Annuario Dei Migliori Vini Italiani 2020