


Krikò
Straw wine from Primitivo Puglia IGP - Annata: 2015
18,00€
GRAPE VARIETY
Primitivo
AGING PROCESS
12 months of aging in second-pass French oak barriques
ALCOHOL CONTENT
14,5% vol
SERVING TEMPERATURE
10-12 °C
IDEAL PAIRING WITH
Sweets in general, especially chocolate and dry almond pastries; blue and aromatic cheeses.
TASTING NOTES
Pronounced aromas of cherry, plum, blueberry and kirsch, with notes of vanilla and candied fruit.
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Description
A distinctive element inside a culture is the language. Griko is an old greek dialect that still lives in southern Salento, because its people resist to forget their ancient roots and traditions. With the same respect for our culture, we created this Primitivo passito wine, that clearly reflects our deep, intense and long living Puglian nature.
GRAPE VARIETY: Primitivo
TYPE OF WINE: Red dessert wine
PRODUCTION AREA: Francavilla Fontana area, in Southern Puglia
TRAINING SYSTEM: traditional puglian bush vines
SOIL: clayey
PLANT DENSITY AND YIELD: 4500 plants per hectare and 1 kg of grapes per plant
HARVEST: manual harvest takes place between the end of August and the beginning of September, when the tannins of the skin are ripe enough. The bunches are collected in small 5 kg baskets, to preserve their integrity, and are taken to a room called “fruttaio” where the withering process takes place, that is the dehydration of the grapes at controlled temperature and humidity.
VINIFICATION: after about a month of withering, the grapes are destemmed and crushed; follows a slow fermentation which lasts about 30 days, at a controlled temperature of 22-24 °C. During the fermentation, frequent punch-down and delestage processes are performed to improve the extraction of color, aromas and tannins. The fermentation is interrupted before the complete consumption of the sugars. Wine then rests for 10-15 days and finally it’s soft pressed.
AGEING: 12 months in French oak barrels
ALCOHOL: 13.5%
RESIDUAL SUGAR: 120 g / l
CALORIES: 164 kcal / 100 ml
TASTING NOTES: ruby red color, with garnet hues; pronounced aromas of cherry, plum, blueberry and kirsch, with notes of vanilla and candied fruit. Full-bodied but fresh, it shows a perfect balance with velvety tannins and a lingering finish of dried fruit.
SERVICE: 10-12 °C
FOOD PAIRING: sweets in general, especially chocolate and dry almond pastries; blue and aromatic cheeses.
Additional information
Weight | 1650 g |
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Vintage | 2015 |
Aging process | 12 months of aging in second-pass French oak barriques |
Size | 75 cl |
Alcohol content | 14,5% vol |
Line | Passito |
Temperature | 10-12 °C |
Type of wine | Natural sweet red (passito) |
Vine Variety | Primitivo |
Honors / Awards
Honor / Award | Anno | Punteggio |
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Cantine Paololeo
If it is true that behind every bottle of wine there is always a nice story to tell, the one of Paololeo wines is a simple but beautiful story, just like all the family stories are.
Today Paololeo winery is a modern company: it covers an area of 17,000 square meters and is equipped with a very modern winemaking system, a large barrel room and a cutting-edge bottling line capable of bottling 7000 bottles per hour.
However, the "heart" of all the current area under vines are still those 25 hectares where, at the beginning of the twentieth century, the great-grandfather began to vinify his grapes in Masseria Monticello. Then his nephew Paolo Leo inherited the land and built the winery.
Today it is still an heir, the namesake Paolo Leo, son of Nicola, to lead the new winery, together with his wife Roberta and his eldest sons Nicola and Stefano, who are paving the way for the younger brothers Francesco and Alessandro.
Official website: www.paololeo.it