Es | Gianfranco Fino Viticoltore

Es according to Freud: it is instinct and unbridled passion (the same this wine has been produced with), with no rules, no constraints, beyond space, time, logic and moral.
It doesn’t know neither good nor bad. Es is submitted to one sole principle: “PLEASURE”

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Name of the wine: Es
Exposure: Flat
Classification: Salento Primitivo Igt
Harvest period: End of august
Production area: Manduria and Sava countryside
Soil: Red soil
Grape variety: Primitivo
Training system: Alberello

HARVEST: Manual harvest in plastic cases with careful selection of the bunches, transport by refrigerator trucks.

IN THE CELLAR: Sorting table, destemming, soft crushing of the grapes, maceration in 70hl stainless steel tanks, from 2 to 3 weeks contact of the skins with the must, control of the temperature of the marc cap, 2 daily délestages, soft pressing of the skins with hydraulic vertical crusher. After approx. 9 months of oak ageing wine is bottled with no aid of fining agents and tartaric precipitations and released to the market after approx. 6 months of bottle ageing.