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- Gioia’s “Primitivo”
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PUGLIA AND CALABRIA Continued…
This Negroamaro is packed with flavour and loaded with character. There’s an abundance of rich, almost brooding fruit, backed by wonderful spice and herb notes. The vineyard has been organic since 1994, the wine is fermented on natural yeasts and there is no fining or filtration. No wonder it has so much (wonderful) character. Very complex and “pulpy” aromas of minerals, dried flowers, blackberry, barnyard, liquorice, country air, mocha, and pine tar. The wine in the mouth is big, full- bodied, dense and chewy in texture, with a powerful, fine, deep, and polished tannic structure on which are hung rich, vivid, three-dimensional flavours of juniper, black cherry, blackcurrant, prune juice, sap, and woody herbs. The finish is very long, intense, warm and dry, with clear flavors of blood orange juice and raisins. A wine of powerful, expressive, and profound rustic elegance. The Primitivo del Salento from 80 year old vines is a robust wine with great depth and persistent character while at the same time transparent and terroir driven. Purple hued. Violets, plums, and spices with hints of liquorice.
varieties that are currently being classified by the best researches in Italy, never more than 3g SO2 added, with about 10 of total, ridiculously low yields, down to 25HL per hectare... a total bargain for the quality and the story behind. Super structured but super light to drink, full of sweet spices and charm .
2016 NEGROAMARO DEL SALENTINO “TORRE NOVA” R
2016 IL PIONIERE NEGROMARO R
2015 PRIMITIVO DEL SALENTO “NATALY” R
Gioia’s “Primitivo” Of ancient birth I am of noble stock I love a life of genuine taste. Therefore, the hill, the rock are my true home. I rejoice when the hot summer sun burns the soil I turn violet. Even more I take pleasure in seizing its beams, which day after day give me more and more strength while my joyful roots spread out and seek refuge within the cool cracks in the rock. It fell to my lot to be overlooked and mistreated in my native country guest of honour and of great prestige in far California (nemo propheta in patria). Thanks to generous hands, with love and passion and great sacrifice, I was snatched from the insane oblivion, I was given life and pride and all I need and deserve so that my strong vinestock with its austere name PRIMITIVO DI GIOIA could still find a decorous place in the country of Gaudella, gentle and genuine rise in the Murgia hills in the surroundings of Gioia.
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Antica Enotria has 12 hectares of vineyard just a few kilometres from the Gulf of Manfredonia. These have been cultivated organically since 1993. The older vineyards are trained to the traditional local Puglia pergola, while the younger plantings, put in less than ten years ago, are trained to the spurred cordon. The finest vines are the varieties indigenous to Puglia, the Nero di Troia, Primitivo, and Negroamaro, as well as varieties classic to areas bordering Daunia, such as Aglianico and Falanghina. Montepulciano too deserves mention, planted as it is in a vast area from the Abruzzo in the north down to the Tavoliere delle Puglie in the south. Sangiovese is also grown. Historically, Daunia is the homeland of the Nero di Troia grape, whose origins are lost in the mists of time. The grape enjoyed its time of greatest popularity in the second half of the 1800s, since the great agricultural estates exported the wine widely as a fine bottled wine. This cuvee is a blend of Nero di Troia, Montepulciano and Sangiovese from exposed calcareous-clay soils. The wine is fermented in tank with native yeasts for eight days and matured in the same vessel. Deep ruby red colour and violet nuances with a characteristic bouquet of cherries and forest berries. On the palate this wine is soft, dry, with nice tannins and a good freshness. 2015
ROSSO IGT PUGLIA R
Cantina di Venosa is a cooperative established in Basilicata Region in 1957 by twenty-seven founders. Today it has five hundred Members bringing to the winery grapes from over 900 ha. of vineyards. Cantina di Venosa is located close the beautiful town of Venosa, an architectural jewel in the northeastern part of Basilicata, and is a major producer of Aglianico del Vulture doc. The Vignali is a blend of Chardonnay, Greco and Malvasia from 8-15 year old vines planted at 350-400 metres above sea level. Harvest is at the beginning of September with a selection of hand harvested grapes. Grapes are harvested and transported to the winery early in the morning. Ferment is in stainless steel tanks at low temperatures; the fruit is aromatic and easy with enough mouthfeel to make it food-friendly. The Aglianico is a modern and well-structured wine which is full of juicy fruits. It has a deep red colour and a cherry and raspberry bouquet. If you like a hefty portion of (oak) chips with your cheap n cheerful Aggers then this is not for you, but we prefer our wines with a juicy lift. 2016
BASILICATA BIANCO VIGNALI W
2015 AGLIANICO ROSSO R
Recipes
Western Spaghetti 8oz spaghetti 1 crow 100 dollar bills 7 mussels 6 fl oz good hock or Pinot Gringo wine, with a smoky finish 1 dirty dozen bad eggs 2 ugli fruit 10 galls Colt 45 1wild bunch parsley 2 oz Indian tea 1 oz che root (grated) 1oz arrowroot (grated) 4 oz true grit Palomino pepper sauce horseradish sauce Rinse the spaghetti pieces to remove the starch and then hang ΄em high to dry. Bring a pan of water to the boil and drop in the spaghetti and the crow. Add a fistful of dollars and the magnificent mussels, dead or alive. After only a few minutes turn the heat to low and introduce the good wine, the bad eggs and the ugli fruit. Simmer enigmatically. Now, though narrowed eyes, add a few dollars more, the beer and the parsley and cook for a further ten minutes. Strain and serve, sprinkling the dish with the tea, grated roots and grit. Add the sauces to taste. Eat at sunset. First, Peel The Otter – John Henry Dixon
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A Sardinian meal always begins with an appetizer: wild boar ham, sausage lamb or veal trotters, clams or mussels cooked alla marinara with white wine, garlic, and parsley, burrida (dogfish marinated in a walnut and garlic sauce), bottarga (salted, dried and pressed roe of tuna or mullet) served in paper thin slices with lemon and olive oil.
The accompanying breads are fabulous. Some examples are: su civraxu, the most common, large, round, flour loaf; su coccoi made with hard-wheat semolina and cut on top with scissors to form small decorative points (is pizzicorrus) that become crisp and golden when baked; su pani carasau or carta musica (literally, sheet music) a round, wafer thin, crisp sheet of flour and semolina. Excellent served with salt and olive oil, it is then called su pani guttiau. Pani carasau is used to make a homely but delicious first course, su pani frattau, in which the thin sheets are first dipped in broth or boiling salted water, layered with tomato sauce, minced meat and grated cheese, and topped with a poached egg. Another flat bread is the soft, round
First courses include: sa fregula, an irregularly shaped, grain-sized pasta served in fish broth; malloreddus, a small grooved pasta flavoured with saffron and served with tomato sauce and cheese; culingionis, ravioli made with semolina (often with a potato puree and mint filling); and panadas, a round cylindrical pie filled with vegetables, meat or eels. Panadas are such a popular specialty that there is a yearly festival dedicated to it in Assemini in July.
The traditional Sardinian meats are spit-roasted suckling pig (porceddu), baby lamb, and kid. The more adventurous might want to try sa cordula, cleaned lamb intestines sautéed with peas, or knotted into an intricate braid with variety meats and oven or spit roasted. Another speciality is sanguinaccio, a pork-blood sausage sweetened with raisins and sugar, served boiled or roasted. The big powerful Cannonau is the ideal partner for this hearty peasant cooking.
Sardinia is Italy’s leading producer of organic produce, accounting for nearly a third of the nation’s land cultivated by biological methods. Tomatoes are used generously in sauces, as are artichokes, fava beans, peas, aubergine and zucchini. Foods here are redolent of herbs, including wild fennel, juniper and myrtle, used with hare, boar and game birds.
The varieties of fish that Sardinians prefer roasted over coals are: orate (gilthead bream), mormore (striped bream), spigole (sea bass), triglie (red mullet), muggini (grey mullet), and anguille (eel). Aragosta (lobster), gamberi (shrimp), vongole (clams), and seppiette (tiny squid) are used in all sorts of pasta and rice dishes. The Vermentino, with its delicate aromas of fruit and hint of almonds in the finish, is a wine to be drunk with the smell of the sea and the heat of the sun. In addition to being the perfect complement to all kinds of seafood recipes, from shrimp salads to elaborate seafood platters with vegetables and smoked cernia or swordfish, this wine is delicious as an exciting aperitif for all occasions. The Vermentino di Gallura DOCG’s finesse comes from the combination of ongoing quality control, the richness of the granite decomposition of soil and the microclimate where the original grapes are grown.
The shepherd’s ancient tradition has led to the production of many different types of cheese now produced in modern factories. Among the most well known is the popular fiore sardo or pecorino sardo, a firm cheese made from fresh, whole sheep’s milk and lamb or kid rennet. Pecorino romano is a drier, sharp cheese made with boiled steep’s milk and lamb rennet. Dolce sardo is a softer, cow’s milk cheese. A singular cheese, unlikely to appeal to the tourist, is casu marzu (literally, “rotten cheese”). It is produced when tiny white larva form in the cheese, gradually reducing it to a creamy consistency. The taste is said to be both delicate and piquant. Casu marzu is not sold commercially but is still made privately for home use. The idiosyncratic sherry-style Vernaccia di Oristano is a marvellous wine for all occasions to go with cheeses for all occasions.
“Another market with its own very characteristic flavour is that of Cagliari, in the island of Sardinia. Spread out in large baskets large as cartwheels are all the varieties of fish which go into ziminu, the Sardinian version of fish soup; fat, scaly little silver fish streaked with lime green; enormous octopus, blue, sepia, mauve, turquoise, curled and coiled and petalled like some heavily embroidered marine flower; the pescatrice again, that ugly hooked angler fish; cold stony little clams here called arselle; tartufe di mare; silvery slippery sardines; rose-red mullets in every possible size, some small as sprats like a doll’s-house fish; the fine lobster for which Sardinia is famous.”
Elizabeth David – Italian Fish Markets
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SARDEGNA Continued…
the trees. They are pale, primrose-smouldering fires…
DH Lawrence – Sea and Sardinia
CANTINA SOCIALE GALLURA, TEMPIO PAUSANIA, Sardegna The Vermentino variety can be found under fairly intensive cultivation in nearly all the Mediterranean coastal districts from Spain to Liguria and on the two major islands semi-enclosed by that arc, Corsica and Sardinia. It is also grown in small areas on the island of Madeira and in some places in southern France. Vermentino is seemingly Spanish in origin. It travelled from Spain to Corsica in the 14 th century and from there went on to Liguria. Its appearance on Sardinia was fairly recent, the final decades of the last century, and it was first planted in the Gallura at the island’s northernmost tip. Although it is now found throughout Sardinia, Vermentino expresses itself best, yielding wines of outstanding personality, in the Gallura, an area incessantly swept by the fierce wind from the Alps, the Mistral. The area’s dry, harsh soils are not conducive to most agricultural production. The quality of the wine is due not only to the microclimatic conditions but also to the character of the terrain, which features a thin and poor substratum of granitic material. That material accounts for the wine’s pronounced perfume, which is balanced by a substantial alcohol level, fine fragrance and good body. The Gemellae is brilliant straw yellow in colour with light greenish reflections; intense and subtle aroma with a delicate and persistent bouquet it is dry, alcoholic, soft flavour with low acidity and an extremely pleasing bitter background. The Canayli, a wine regularly nudging three glasses in Gambero Rosso, has hints of crisp apple, melon and fresh herbs. A long, well-rounded, lemony finish make it the ideal partner with Sardinian-style braised young chicken with tomatoes, red bell peppers, crimini mushrooms, and pepperoncino, served with spicy roasted potatoes, eggplant and peppers; swordfish loin filled with shrimp, pecorino and caciocavallo cheeses, almonds and garlic or sautéed shrimp and fennel with pink peppercorns, caperberries and arugula sauce. If you can find the ingredients get cooking! 2016
VERMENTINO DI GALLURA “GEMELLAE” W
2016 VERMENTINO DI GALLURA SUPERIORE “CANAYLI” W
TENUTA MASONE MANNU, MONTI, GALLURA, Sardegna Tenuta Masone Mannu is located in the village of Monti in the area Su Canale ,ten km from the airport of Olbia, in the heart of the Gallura region. It is an area of luxuriant vegetation, perfumed with myrtle bushes and juniper bushes and crossed by three rivers, and refreshed by a light breeze that always blows from the nearby sea. The estate is seventeen hectares planted with vines, of which there are thirteen hectares of Vermentino, four hectares of various Sardinian vines: Cannonau, Carignano, Bovale Sardo, Malvasia. The two owning families the Ghirras and the Amorettis bought the vineyard from the previous farmers in 2003. This is quite a ripe style of Vermentino with notes of sweet almond overlaying pineapple, passionfruit and ginger. 2014
VERMENTINO DI GALLURA PETRIZZA W
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2016
BARBAGIA BIANCO GRANAZZA W
2015 CANNONAU SARTIU R
CANNONAU DI SARDEGNA “MAMUTHONE” R
ALBERTO LOI, CARDEDU, Sardegna The Alberto Loi Estate was established by the end of the forties and the beginning of the fifties by Alberto Loi, born in Jerzu in a family of wine cultivators, producers and traders of Cannonau wine. The present owners, Alberto Loi’s boys, constitute the third generation of the family devoted to the production of Cannonau wine. The estate is located in Ogliastra, the east-central region of Sardinia, the most celebrated of the entire island for the production of the Cannonau wine. More precisely, it is situated in the countryside of Cardedu at just a few kilometres from Jerzu. The whole Ogliastra is rich with traces of the nuragic civilization and it’s not difficult to visit the remains of the Nuragh and Domus de Janas. You can find numerous local folklore organizations, which supervise the preparation of the country festivities, and the colourful country festival which takes place from April to October. The production of Cannonau DOC wine of the territory of Cardedu and Jerzu avails of the specific sub-denomination “Jerzu” provided under the rules for DOC of the Cannonau wine of Sardinia. The basic Cannonau Sa Mola is ruby red tending towards garnet with an intense, slightly ethereal, rich, fragrant, floral bouquet reminiscent of mature plums, blackberries, wild berries and old rose and suggestions of aromatic wood and spices. The Riserva, made only in top vintages, benefits from extra time in cask. This is altogether a richer wine with more complexity being tasty with spicy tannins and warm in alcohol yet also surprisingly smooth. Balanced, intense and persistent it improves with ageing (from 2 to 6 years and even more in exceptional cases), which enhances the basic characteristics and gives rise to a particularly rich bouquet. Worth nibbling some aged Pecorino with this. Nibaru is the name of a local wild bushplant called “spaccasassi” (literally from Italian “stone breaker”) which produces tiny round black berries, made of a round seed with a bit of pulp and skin around. There is one of these plants growing in the plot of Monica vines in the commune of San Vito, which produce this particular wine. This local wild berry has a very tannic and herbaceous taste, of “garrigue ( the soil and wild plants that grow on the craggy hill of the countries in the Mediterranean region”, which can be detected in some of the wines of Cantina Alberto Loi, especially in this ’Nibaru’. Captivating nose with flowery perfumes of red flowers, both fresh and dried, as well as strong cherry-fruity notes and delicate minerality, combined with a gentle spiciness. Very tasty in the mouth with a hint of bitterness, plenty of stonefruit fruit and peppery tannins. I’m thinking slow-cooked shoulder of pork with fennel.
2013 MONICA DI SARDEGNA “NIBARU” R
2013 CANNONAU DI SARDEGNA “SA MOLA” R
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