LE CAMARDE NEGROAMARO&PRIMITIVO SALENTO IGP

Tasting notes

This wine is produced by using the grapes coming from three vineyards located in an area named Camarda. We think of them as three old sisters (Le Camarde is the plural noun of Camarda) giving us, tirelessly, some great wines every year. When young it is a dense ruby-red wine with a complex sensorial profile having hints of liquorice and berries. Juniper and china-root hints on the palate; long final supported by silky tannins. GRAPE VARIETY Negroamaro 80% – Primitivo 20% ALCOHOL GRADATION 13,5% by vol. YIELD PER HECTARE 8.000 bottles (4.000 – 4.500 vines per hectare) AGE OF THE VINES 45/50 years old VINE CULTIVATION METHOD alberello (head training system) grapes 80% Negroamaro – 20% Primitivo origine of the name One of the oldest districts of the Guagnano fiefdom is called Camarda. Here the cellar has several negroamaro and primitive vines that together contribute to the creation of this superb wine. production area and harvest time Guagnano – Manual harvesting: the Primitivo at the beginning of September; the Negroamaro on the second ten days of the same month. at the winery The grapes are crushed and destemmed softly. The maceration process lasts more or less two weeks. The resulting wines is aged for 3 months in French oak barrels. ageing potential The wine is ready 6 months later the bottling. It can be kept for at least 10/15 years. serving temperature- food matchings 18°C – Aged Sardinian pecorino cheese; pork fillet with herbs; Tuscan cigar.