Primitivo di Manduria Riserva, Anniversario 62, San Marzano 2020
Luca Maroni 97; James Suckling 90
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Why this wine
San Marzano's members hold some of the oldest Primitivo bush vines in Puglia, and Anniversario 62 is the Riserva drawn from the best of those plots. Eighteen months in French and American oak keep the ripeness in proportion, so it is generous without losing its shape.
At a glance
- Grape
- Primitivo
- Region
- Puglia, Italy
- Alcohol
- 14.50%
- Body
- Full
- Acidity
- Medium
- Tannins
- Medium
- Sweetness
- Off-Dry
- Drink
- Long (10-20 yrs)
- Pairs with
- Red Meat, Barbecue, Cheese
How it tastes
Prunes, black cherry jam, spice and tobacco, closing on cocoa, coffee and vanilla bean. Full-bodied and velvety, with ripe, rounded tannins and a trace of sweetness carrying a long finish. Primitivo 100%.
The producer
Cantine San Marzano was founded in 1962 by nineteen growers in the town of San Marzano and now draws on the work of more than 1,200 of them. The fruit for this Riserva comes from very old bush vines in San Marzano and Sava, in the central part of the Primitivo di Manduria DOP, planted at 5,000 vines per hectare in fine-textured red calcareous soil whose colour comes from iron oxides; high temperatures, very little rain and a wide day-to-night swing concentrate the berries, and picking runs through the second half of September. Only the best fruit from the best plots was used, hand-harvested at an advanced stage of ripeness: fermentation lasted around 15 days at 24 to 26°C, malolactic conversion followed in stainless steel, and the wine then matured 18 months in French and American oak barrels.
Food and drinking
Serve at 16 to 18°C. Try it with braised beef short rib, barbecued lamb, a slow-cooked ragù or aged pecorino. Drinking well now and will keep for a decade or more; decant an hour ahead. Sealed with a DIAM cork. Suitable for vegetarians and vegans.