Vespa Primitivo di Manduria DOP 2022
- 92
- $70
- Drink by: 2025-2032
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Off the iron rich, red soils of Manduria in Puglia and offering a deeply flavoured wine, rich in almost impenetrable dark hues and fruit intensity. There’s a noted power present in this wine emphasising both the savoury and the fruit based. Speaks of the earth with rusty ferrous notes tied to ripe, black berries, sage, anise and crushed herbs, tapenade, cocoa and a wealth of spice. It’s a complex taste backed by savoury tannins. Structurally and flavour-wise, it’s set for some medium-term ageing.
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.
