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San Marzano - Sessantanni - Primitivo di Manduria2019

RED WINE

PUBLIC
October 2025
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San Marzano - Sessantanni - Primitivo di Manduria label
  • Producer San Marzano
  • Blend 100% Primitivo
  • Country Italy
  • Region Puglia
  • Appellation Primitivo di Manduria
  • UPC 811018030008

Reviews

Luca Maroni 99

At its purplish strength of fruit and pure flower, the creaminess, pulp, and liqueur of its magnificent grapes reverberate throughout its exceptional palette of color, aroma, and flavor. A wine of supreme concentration, of didactic, indestructible, transformative oenology, whose transition and transformation from solid to liquid of its massive native sensory treasure has occurred without loss, distortion, or blemish whatsoever. Thus, its analytical and sensorial value, evoking the most pulpy and mellow blackberry jam, glazed with the vanilla sweetness of oak, yet even before that, radiates and unleashes itself upon the admiring drinker.

by LM, Luca Maroni , 2023

James Suckling 91

This bold and rich wine has intense aromas of mushrooms, currants, roasted cherries and cinnamon. It's full-bodied with herbal undertones to the dried-fruit sweetness. Medium-chewy tannins match the flavor intensity.

by JS, James Suckling , 2024

Technical Details

Description

Area: Very old vineyards selected in the area of San Marzano (TA) and Sava (TA). Soil: Finely textured residual red soil with a calcareous subsoil, sparse rocky outcrops and intense presence of iron oxides. Farming type: Head-trained bush vines at least sixty years old (5,000 per hectare). Grape harvest: Second half of September. Vinification: Very ripe grapes are harvested manually. The maceration takes place for 18 days on 80% of the mass and for 25 days on 20%, with native yeasts selected in the vineyard. Fermentation takes place at a controlled temperature of 24-26 °C. Ageing: In French and American oak barriques for 12 months.

Estate

Marzano is a small village in the centre of the Primitivo di Manduria DOC region, a strip of land kissed by the two seas of the Salento: the Ionian and the Adriatic. In 1962 the DOC appellation did not yet exist, and the Primitivo di Manduria was far from becoming a cult wine for wine lovers. Even so, 19 winemakers came together to follow a dream and founded Cantine San Marzano.

Tasting notes

Very intense and elegant ruby red color, ample and complex fruity fragrance with hints of plum, cherry jam and tobacco, slightly spicy. A full-bodied wine, soft and rich in tannins, with a finish that offers notes of cocoa, coffee and vanilla. Best served with: Richly flavored first courses, red meat and game. A meditation wine.