Femar Vini Primitivo Gran Appasso Edizione Old Vines Puglia IGT

Agree with the professional taster review. With a big, thick bottle and medium price you can hope for a good primitivo experience but this is NOT the case. Too sweet, sickly and definitely not a food wine. We drank half the bottle and threw the rest away! Believe me, this doesn’t happen often!

"It’s a Zin!" - Flight 5, wine 1 (blind): The wine was dark ruby in colour and showed forest berries, spice cake, spices, liquorice, coffee, some chocolate, some coconut and glycerin on the nose an palate, with some residual sugar, warming alcohol and very good length of the coffee-infused finish. I am not a fan of this style of wine, but from a commercial standpoint this is very well made. My parents in law would love it. Not a food …

Made from grapes sourced from very old vineyards. The grapes are left to dry and raisinate on the vine before the harvest. 16% alcohol, 13 g/l residual sugar, 6,6 g/l acidity. Tasted blind in VV. Fully opaque, really concentrated and somewhat viscous blackish-red color. The rich and expressive nose is very sweet, redolent with aromas of mulled wine and christmas spices, vanilla, raisins, some smoke sauna tones, a little bit of cloves and a hint of blueberry jam. Some might …