2016’s Primitivo Amphora, which spent a year in Cristiano’s clay amphora under a lid closed with beeswax, is still very much in its youth. There’s all of that grape’s wonderful bitter red plum and cherry fruit, herbs with a marked freshness that should see this age for another decade.
Cristiano Guttarolo makes Puglian wines that taste like no other. His vineyards are planted at elevation on a limestone plateau which lends his wines, based on local grapes like Primitivo, Negormaro, Susumaniello and Verdeca are rare freshness and palpable energy.
2016’s Primitivo Amphora, which spent a year in Cristiano’s clay amphora under a lid closed with beeswax, is still very much in its youth. There’s all of that grape’s wonderful bitter red plum and cherry fruit, herbs with a marked freshness that should see this age for another decade.
Cristiano Guttarolo makes Puglian wines that taste like no other. His vineyards are planted at elevation on a limestone plateau which lends his wines, based on local grapes like Primitivo, Negormaro, Susumaniello and Verdeca are rare freshness and palpable energy.
