Set Includes:
1. Piantaferro Montepulciano DOC Abruzzo, 2020 (original price: $188)
2. Piantaferro Intrigo Negroamaro IGT Puglia (original price: $188)
3. Piantaferro Fiano IGT Beneventano (original price: $188)
1. Piantaferro Montepulciano d'Abruzzo DOC
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Country
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Italy
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| Region |
Abruzzo DOC, |
| Grape Variety |
100% Montepulciano |
| Winemaking |
It is obtained from carefully selected and healthy grapes, and through maceration in steel vats; after alcoholic fermentation, the wine is decanted into steel tubs where the malolactic fermentation is completed (following a first decanting stage); later on, it is filtered and then bottled.
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Tasting Notes
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Colour
Deep ruby red with violet hues when young.
Bouquet
Harmonic, persistent, intense and suggestive of red berries, morel, blackberry and plum
Flavour
This wine is balanced, nicely bodied, tasty, dry, persistent on the palate and properly tannic with hints of liquorice and a delicate aftertaste of bitter almond.
Alcohol Content
12.5%
Serving Temperature
16-18° C
Food Pairing
It goes very well with roasts, mixed grilled meats, game birds, hare, and seasoned cheeses.
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Volume
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750 ml |
2. Piantaferro Negroamaro IGT Puglia
| Country |
Italy
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| Region |
Puglia
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| Grape Variety |
Minimum 85% Negroamaro IGT and up to a maximum of 15% other red grape varieties which are authorised |
| Winemaking |
The wine-making technique is of traditional type, based on 3 daily topups during the first week and on a daily top-up during the week that follows. The fermentation temperature is set at 22° C during the first week of fermentation and at 28° C during the second week. Once the phase of alcoholic fermentation is completed, the grape skins are racked and softly pressed. The best conditions for the malolactic fermentation are created and this phase is concluded with customary decanting. The bottling process starts in the month of June of the year following the harvest. |
| Tasting Notes |
Colour
Intense red, deep, with wonderful garnet shades
Bouquet
Fine, elegant, ethereal and warm, initially with blackberry jam hints, followed by a toasted sensation, particularly of spicy notes of coffee and cinnamon
Flavour
A very pleasant, warm and enveloping mouth entry followed by a slight tannic note continued by a very good persistence, leaving a dry mouth. Good correspondence between scent and aftertaste.
Alcohol Content
13%
Serving Temperature
16-18° C
Food Pairing
This important Apulian wine combines well with first dishes such as Orecchiette pasta with tomato and ricotta cheese sauce, all red meat dishes in general, superb with lamb and other barbecued meats, interesting match with curry dishes and is also excellent with seasoned strong flavoured aged hard cheeses
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| Volume |
750 ml |
3. Piantaferro Fiano IGT Beneventano
| Country |
Italy
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| Region |
Beneventano |
| Grape Variety |
Fiano varietal minimum of 85%,in addition other white grape varietals can be added up to a maximum of 15% whose cultivation is authorized within the province of Benevento, such as Falanghina and Greco. |
| Winemaking |
immediately after picking, the Fiano grapes are placed into a steel lung press, the resulting must is cooled to 12° C and statically decanted. The clear must is the put into alcoholic fermentation using selected yeasts, once this process has ended the wine is cooled to 8° C and after 6-8 days the first transfer is carried out. The Piantaferro Fiano IGT Beneventano is stoed at temperature controlled condition right up to the moment of bottling.
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| Tasting Notes |
Colour
soft straw yellow.
Bouquet
the perfume is intense, persistent, with floral notes and hints of white peach, exotic fruits, hints of hazelnut.
Flavour
to the mouth it is a structured wine with good acidity, it delivers long, pleasing and lasting aftertaste leaving clear notes of esotic fruits.
Alcohol Content
12.5%
Serving Temperature
10-14°C
Food Pairing
excellent with meals based on fish and crustaceans, white meats and rice disse. Goes well also with vegetable dishes.
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| Volume |
750 ml |
