Mottura Primitivo Salento 2024

Full on Southern Italian charm here, easy to relate to, so easy to enjoy. From the heart of Puglia, Primitivo hits the spot with its medium bodied, fruit and spice and everything nice in a tight little package. Clear fruited, fresh and soft in tannins it comes on a bed of delicious dark berries, anise, liquorice, spice, hints of fruitcake and dried herbs. Keeping with the Italian way there are hints of savouriness – earthy with a light, smoked charcuterie – a nice tease and adjunct to the richness of the fruit and spice. Tannins are easy going. Brings up comparisons with Beaujolais such is the easy Mottura affable style. Can be enjoyed solo or with food, namely ragù alla Bolognese with pasta or lasagne.

Jeni Port

Wine critic at Winepilot

Jeni Port is one of Australia’s top wine communicators. Based in Melbourne, Jeni created the first wine column in the (then) Sun News-Pictorial before moving over to The Age and becoming that paper’s longest-serving wine writer. Over the years she has written for most Australian wine magazines and these days calls WinePilot home. She is also a Tasting Panel member on the Halliday Wine Companion. She was named Wine Communicator of the Year and Legend of the Melbourne Food and Wine Festival in 2014 and in 2018 Legend of the Vine. She is a founding board member of Australian Women In Wine and is the co-deputy chair of Australia’s Wine List of the Year Awards and China’s Wine List of the Year Awards.

Wine writer and critic