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Red dry
The wine "JO" takes its name as a dedication to the Ionian Sea, on whose coast vines more than 40 years old grow. The soil is terra rossa — a mixture of clay, sand, and limestone — and the vines grow practically on flat ground, at only 15 metres above sea level.
After a brief drying of the berries on the vine, they are hand-harvested, carefully selected, gently crushed, and kept for 3-4 weeks at 23-25 °C in stainless steel tanks with the skins. After settling and removing the coarser lees, the wine is aged for 12 months in French oak barrels (50% new, 50% second-use) and 6 months in bottle, unfined and unfiltered.
A ruby-coloured wine, with aromas of ripe black cherries, dried plums, cocoa, tobacco, and Mediterranean herbs. Soft, warm, and refreshing.
Serve at 18–20 °C with slow-roasted lamb and potatoes, pepperonata stew (onions, garlic, peppers, olives, tomatoes, basil and parsley), or grilled tuna steaks.
Aromas of cola, leather, fruit salad and salted chocolate, but on the palate the smooth texture and medium body are sustained by refreshing, almost crisp acidity. Drink now.
The adventure of Gianfranco Fino begins in 2004, with the search of the vineyard prefect, who had to have special characteristics and unique. The research finds its end almost immediately, with the purchase of a small vineyard of primitive than fifty years of around 2 hectares, larger then with the cultivation of additional land rented. Already this brief history would be enough to indent Gianfranco Fino the ranks of those growers linked to the traditions, eager to save the old vineyards and keep alive their specificity. His careful work and its great wines tell a thousand words: its Primitivo di Manduria is placed on an innovative area, which, while maintaining a traditional side traceable in the assembly of grapes from different vineyards, as is traditional in these parts, reveals a power and a body truly amazing. The most outstanding wines of Gianfranco Fino is in exemplary balance between structure, vein alcohol, acidity and flavor that make them significant and very important: in a word, great wines. Today the vineyards of Gianfranco Fino, located in the countryside of Manduria and Sava, small plots are fragmented, with red earth and rocks occasionally protruding. Crops are generally made from very old trees, flanked by recently planted an experimental vineyard. Primitivo Es is certainly not only the excellence of its production, but also the view Pugliese; It is a wine that definitely filled the vacuum regional production of past decades.
