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The southern climes of Italy are home to some of the most under-recognised wines and varieties in the world of wine. Overlooked for their flashier northern cousins, these wines offer quality drinking and honest stories of where they came from. Primitivo is a grape that is genetically identical to Zinfandel, and does share of that grapes ripe dark red fruit profile. Due to its climate however, and the old volcanic soils of the area, it has an added edge of coffee bitterness and tannic grip. The 2015 bottling from Luccarelli is simultaneously complex and fruit-driven, redolent of plum, prune, cherry, and vanilla. It is on the richer side, but maintains its edge and verve with trademark southern Italian tannins and some coffee/cocoa spice. This is a real winner, a wine of honesty and power that never veers over the edge of fattiness. Great drinking.
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