“How comes a great wine” – from “Il MIO VINO” of february 2011
Power rhymes with persuasive
are the characteristics of TERRE NERE 2007, a Negramaro wine produced by a young and dynamic company called Varone Pirro, in the sunny countryside close to the Ionian Sea
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Salento has a heart, with a successful slogan says, emphasizing, perhaps, that Manduria – the heart in question – is equidistant from Taranto, Brindisi and Lecce, the three major cities of the peninsula of Puglia that is wedged between the Adriatic and Ionian Seas. Before landing place of the ships from the East, the lands from which is said to have originated most of the vines on Italian soil.
Are no exception, although among the scholars of archaeological viticulture there are those who think the contrary, the primitive and the negroamaro, that just in the countryside around Manduria, where flatten the Murge Tarantino lands centuries ago were already elected .
In a street in the wonderful old town of Manduria, a city founded by Messapi, skilled horse breeders, is the headquarters of Pirro Varone , waiting for the new winery will be ready between 14 hectares of own vineyards in the locality Sorani, the soft campaign that goes to a few kilometers coastline.
Here the ground is characterized substances, shapes and even different shades of color. There is an area of origin erosive shallow, rich in calcium and organic matter, potassium and iron (and thus the reddish color) and an area of alluvial, deep, resting on clay and tuffaceous rock, rich in substances from the decomposition of old vegetation, which has the visual effect of intense color of gray, sometimes with black soil.
From here come the dark grapes negroamaro that the Pirro Varone become an excellent Negroamaro Salento IGT, labeled, needless to say, Terre Nere . A wine for which, say our experts, you should at least do a Mexican wave, like a champion when he enters the stadium.
In our case the champion was the 2007 vintage, really superb, even in the price, about € 10 in wine shops. Too bad that the Pirro Varone I have done only 15 000 bottles, at a total annual production of 120 000 songs. But ………( cont.)
