Vespa Bruno Primitivo Salento IGT 2022

Vespa winery and estate in western Puglia is a primitivo specialist, sourcing the grape from a couple of locations. The Salento Peninsula is the “heel” of Italy’s famous boot with two sea masses on either side – the Adriatic to the east and the Ionian Sea to the west. It’s worthwhile noting this while tasting this wine, together with the role of the area’s limestone in playing a part in the medium bodied brightness of the wine. Blue fruits mix with black and red cherries, ripe and rich, which form the basis of the wine joined by a host of attractive spices. It’s a fine textured wine, keenly varietal in nature but not over-indulging in either the ripeness of the fruit or the oak, instead delivering a well-balanced, vibrant, wine.

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