Zinfandel's Soap Opera Ampelography || #216 Feudi di S Gregorio Primitivo || HanDrinksSolo Wine Club

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VIDEO CONTENTS INDEX:
00:00 – A BIT ABOUT PRIMITIVO IN ITALY
01:10 – PRIMITIVO PLANTINGS AROUND THE WORLD
01:30 – THE HISTORY OF THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN ZINFANDEL AND PRIMITIVO
03:00 – PRIMITIVO COMES FROM CROATIA!
04:27 – WHAT DOES PRIMITIVO TASTE LIKE?
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For the longest time, Californians assumed that Zinfandel was a grape indigenous to California; their only indigenous vitis vinifera. One can imagine their horror and indignation when it was discovered that Zinfandel was in fact identical to the Southern Italian grape of Primitivo, and the old world wine mafia began claiming that it was in fact an Italian grape grown in areas like Gioia del Colle and Manduria, eons before California was even a thing. Oh how the culture wars waged between the old world and the new as the two countries fought over the right to own Zinfandel. Meanwhile, in the sleepy little coastal nook known as Croatia, ampelographers were preparing for the biggest, “bitch, please!” moment in wine history. But more about that in the video. For now you’ll have to settle for a few tasting notes and some technical details:
👃🏼Nose is delightfully extroverted, full of black plum, blackcurrant fruit pastilles, blueberries, violets, with some hits of slighter redder strawberry sherbet, too.
👄 Palate is both broad and delightfully dense, with rich layers of concentrated black fruit, elevated by liquorice spice, and staunch tannins. But the lovely thing about those big tannins is that they remain wrapped in that persistent black fruit throughout the fairly lengthy tail.
The sweeter blackcurrant fruit pastille elements lean up against more juicy blackberry acidity. It’s a big bold fruit-forward wine, which I guess puts an end to the illusion that “only new world wines” can deliver big, rich, dense waves of fruit.
🔬 Manduria DOC, Apulia. ABV 14.5%
💰 R185.00
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