Primitivo di Manduria

Wine symbol of the indissoluble bond between environment, vine and man's work. The vines are all long-standing and grow in iron-rich soil, exceptional conditions for a refined, well-structured wine with intense colour, aroma and flavour.

TECHNICAL DATA SHEET
Denomination: Primitivo di Manduria PDO
Grapes (Variety): 100% Primitivo
Geographical location: Salento
Soil characteristics: Red soil rich in iron oxides on sandstone layers
Age of the vines: 40 years
Breeding system: Spurred cordon
Production per hectare: 80 ql
Collection mode: Manual in cassettes
Vinification: Soft pressing, fermentation at controlled temperature and maceration on the skins.
Yield in wine: 65%
Ageing: 9 months in barriques and barrels + 3 months in bottle
Alcohol content: 15% vol.

ORGANOLEPTIC TEST
Visual inspection: Ruby red, intense, tending to load
Olfactory analysis: Ethereal, fruity (berry jams), spicy
Gustative examination: Structured, balanced and rightly tannic.

ACCOMPANIMENTS
Throughout the meal (for land menus), red meats flavoured with spices, complex and structured first courses.
Ideal typical dish: homemade orecchiette with meatball sauce and meat rolls ("brascioli") seasoned with fresh cacioricotta or "ricotta forte".

Jorche is also a wine and wine tourism company immersed in the green countryside of Taranto. 
Now in their fifth generation, the sisters Gianfreda, Dalila and Emanuela dedicate themselves with curiosity, creativity and enthusiasm to the historic family business.

Near the Masseria there is the new winery, a modern structure of high technological value.
The construction of the current Cellar coincides with the beginning of a new phase of Jorche's winemaking activity and with the debut of its new wines.
A modern and technologically advanced architectural structure with a fermentation temperature control system that jealously preserves the authentic values of the past. The wines rest in the silence of the new underground cooperage and the last ageing of the Primitivo takes place in the large barrels and barriques and partly in the "capasuni" according to the original method.