Layer Cake Primitivo

During a visit to puglia to investigate the flavors behind carole meredith s recent studies showing that primitivo is indeed identical to zinfandel we discovered the largest cache of old vine zinfandel grapes in the world which borthed the layer cake primitivo.

Layer cake primitivo. Save 2 01 13 ships mon aug 17. Recent research indicates that primitivo like the very similar zinfandel grape in california is a clone of an ancient croatian grape called crljenak kaštelanski. The 2011 layer cake primitivo comes right at you with huge inky black fruit spice and white pepper. Never pass up a layer cake he would say.

The fruit for layer cake primitivo aka zinfandel comes from head trained old vines. My grandfather taught me about wine at an early age. Meredith s findings with the layer cake primitivo label and received the first ever certificate of label approval with primitivo and zinfandel used as synonyms on the label. Layer cake primitivo zinfandel 2015 750ml italy pugli 13 99.

Always in the background are hints of the old sea beds that are the puglia terroir. Limit 0 bottles per customer sold in increments of 0. Layered and rich in the mouth with jammy black cherries truffles espresso and a dense creamy texture. Always in the background are hints of the old sea beds that are the puglia terroir.

I always loved those words. Layered and rich in the mouth with jammy black cherries truffles espresso and dense creamy texture. However have not been officially defined as synonymous by the ttb. He told me the soil in which the vines lived were like a layer cake and the wine if properly made was like my grandmother s cake with layers of fruit mocha chocolate hints of spice and rich always rich.

Standard delivery 1 week no minimum order. There it makes black fruit filled jammy primitivo wines with low acidity and medium tannins. Go to shop m r liquors. Layered and rich in the mouth with jammy black cherries truffles espresso and dense creamy texture.

The layer cake primitivo comes right at you with huge inky black fruit spice and white pepper. Layer cake primitivo aka zinfandel 2014 from puglia italy big inky black fruit spice and white pepper. This is truly remarkable plant material in very old vineyards some dating to roman times. Layer cake primitivo aka zinfandel 2017.

The soils in manduria are red iron rich clays with large calcareous rocks shells and coral from ancient seabeds.