Aging: 6 months in barrique

Felline Primitivo di Manduria Sinfarosa Zinfandel is a still red wine that comes from the cellars of Felline whose heart lies in Puglia, in the province of Taranto, and around which curious stories of even international encounters are told. It all goes back to the year 1967, when an American professor from California went to Bari, where he noticed that the wine he ordered for dinner, a Primitivo, tasted extremely similar to a California wine he was used to, Zinfandel. From that point on, the two grape varieties began to be analyzed and it was discovered that the DNA of Primitivo is shared with the Zinfandel grape variety. The area in which Felline, a historic Apulian company and important within the “Accademia dei Racemi” project, works is renowned for viticulture,also because due to several awards from many Taranto farms there has been considerable investment in the area to make the most of it and to improve the quality of the wines.

Felline is a historic Apulian winery, protagonist of the success of a great wine such as Primitivo di Manduria DOC and a milestone within the project called “Accademia dei Racemi,” which gave impetus to the revival of many native grape varieties in the region.The winery’s name comes from a vast archaeological area of Manduria, a short distance from its renowned beaches, in which there are the remains of a very ancient city, Felline to be exact. Since the late 1990s Felline, in collaboration with other young and ambitious producers, has contributed to the enhancement of the area’s symbolic grape variety, primitivo. A project stimulated by a deep love for the territory and its traditions, which today places Felline among the most important wineries in the area, thanks to a complete range of wines including sparkling wines, whites, rosés and of course the reds typical of one of the most vocated areas of the Puglia region.