Primitivo di Manduria DOC Triusco 2019 – Rivera x 6

Why the winemaker recommends Rivera Triusco Primitivo di Manduria DOC

Triusco Primitivo wine is made from Primitivo di Manduria and Primitivo di Gioia del Colle grapes. Harvested in mid-August from sapling and espalier vineyards on land overlooking the Adriatic and that of Gioia del Colle at about 350 meters above sea level. The two wines rest in cement tanks and then pass into barriques for refinement. Triusco A jovial wine with a marked longevity and a beautiful bright color. It is a wine to be tasted to capture the evolution of the fruit that is felt full.

We drank it for you to accompany a particularly tasty typical Apulian dish, cardoncelle vegetable soup with lamb meat.

Characteristics of the Primitivo Triusco di Rivera wine

Triusco Primitivo DOC Manduria in the glass is immediately a lot of stuff for this Apulian wine based on Primitivo: Body and structure always crystalline, intense and deep amaranth color and purple nail, colors the glass and shows the powerful consistency with slow and wide arches. On the nose the impact of the small fruit: blackberry, blackcurrant, dried black cherry. A hint of jam and light spiciness of toasted almond and vanilla. On the palate dry a lot of tannin still a little astringent, a little rough; wine with a robust body, quite soft.

Recommended pairings for this red wine Puglia Primitivo DOC

Triusco 2019 with cardoncelli mushrooms and baked potatoes; vegetable omelettes; fried snails in their shell; Cardoncelli vegetable soup and lamb meat, semi-hard and mature cheeses with various cured meats; Vegetables in EVO oil; dried fruit.

Uncork the Primitivo di Manduria Rivera and serve at a temperature between 16 - 18°C ​​in a Ballon glass.

Rivera Winery

Rivera ….long centuries have passed and selection lists of varietal clones have led to the affirmation of the great Apulian black grape winemaking potential.