Fatalone - Teres Primitivo
Fatalone’s 2022 Teres Primitivo is a unique and delicious light red wine that pays homage to the Petrera family’s ancestors and their winemaking practices. It was first made with the intention to replace rosé (which was commonly drunk in the summer months), being able to utilize the lighter side of the local Primitivo grape. Being that rosé wines are a very important chilled beverage for the hot summertime in Apulia, originally this wine was cooled by placing the bottle (or cup) in cool water that was chilled with pieces of frozen snow from the “neviere” (a room dug out from rock, enclosed by thick stone walls, and filled with snow in the wintertime in order to create a ‘ice chest’ for the summer months). This wine comes from only the free-run must of the Racemi, which is the juice of the second budding fruit of the Gioia del Colle Primitivo plant (yielding only 1200-1880 kg/hectare), which has less of a full-body character, a more delicate palate, and a lovely sweet and floral smell. In 2022 the harvest came 2 weeks earlier than usual because the ripening season was warm and intense, giving more power and intensity to the finished wine as well.
Teres is still a fresh, mineral driven light red wine full of strawberry, cranberry, raspberry, red currant and a green almond aftertaste with a mineral driven backbone and light balsamic notes.
Region: Puglia, Italy
Grape: 100% Primitivo (Racemi fruit)
Vintage: 2022
750ml
Fatalone’s 2022 Teres Primitivo is a unique and delicious light red wine that pays homage to the Petrera family’s ancestors and their winemaking practices. It was first made with the intention to replace rosé (which was commonly drunk in the summer months), being able to utilize the lighter side of the local Primitivo grape. Being that rosé wines are a very important chilled beverage for the hot summertime in Apulia, originally this wine was cooled by placing the bottle (or cup) in cool water that was chilled with pieces of frozen snow from the “neviere” (a room dug out from rock, enclosed by thick stone walls, and filled with snow in the wintertime in order to create a ‘ice chest’ for the summer months). This wine comes from only the free-run must of the Racemi, which is the juice of the second budding fruit of the Gioia del Colle Primitivo plant (yielding only 1200-1880 kg/hectare), which has less of a full-body character, a more delicate palate, and a lovely sweet and floral smell. In 2022 the harvest came 2 weeks earlier than usual because the ripening season was warm and intense, giving more power and intensity to the finished wine as well.
Teres is still a fresh, mineral driven light red wine full of strawberry, cranberry, raspberry, red currant and a green almond aftertaste with a mineral driven backbone and light balsamic notes.
Region: Puglia, Italy
Grape: 100% Primitivo (Racemi fruit)
Vintage: 2022
750ml
Fatalone’s 2022 Teres Primitivo is a unique and delicious light red wine that pays homage to the Petrera family’s ancestors and their winemaking practices. It was first made with the intention to replace rosé (which was commonly drunk in the summer months), being able to utilize the lighter side of the local Primitivo grape. Being that rosé wines are a very important chilled beverage for the hot summertime in Apulia, originally this wine was cooled by placing the bottle (or cup) in cool water that was chilled with pieces of frozen snow from the “neviere” (a room dug out from rock, enclosed by thick stone walls, and filled with snow in the wintertime in order to create a ‘ice chest’ for the summer months). This wine comes from only the free-run must of the Racemi, which is the juice of the second budding fruit of the Gioia del Colle Primitivo plant (yielding only 1200-1880 kg/hectare), which has less of a full-body character, a more delicate palate, and a lovely sweet and floral smell. In 2022 the harvest came 2 weeks earlier than usual because the ripening season was warm and intense, giving more power and intensity to the finished wine as well.
Teres is still a fresh, mineral driven light red wine full of strawberry, cranberry, raspberry, red currant and a green almond aftertaste with a mineral driven backbone and light balsamic notes.
Region: Puglia, Italy
Grape: 100% Primitivo (Racemi fruit)
Vintage: 2022
750ml