"Papias" sublime effluvium, tinged with carmine red...in rhythmic balance between power and delicacy, from the full taste and enveloping like a snake's grip around its prey. A wine born to be innovative for its powerful aromaticity made of full, sharp, angular and at the same time rounded notes. Balsamic smells make up the top notes with fresh and graceful scents that induce the senses to taste... Acacia flowers e hawthorn, intertwine with currant shoot, notes of thyme, vanilla, pepper, cinnamon, blend harmoniously to give texture to a heart rich e persistent. Hints of wood, notes of musk e amber express its personality and strongly characterize its underlying component. The end result is a wine whose essences become invisible architectures of complex fragrances. Papias identifies the wine that expresses olfactory complexity ... like its namesake Papias, a churchman who lived back in 1100 AD and expressed in his 12 manuscripts collected in a work called ''L' Elementarium'' difficult words and concepts by providing an explanation and constituting the first Latin dictionary of the time.

NAME:Papias 2021 DOP

TYPE OF WINE:red wine

DENOMINATION:Protected Designation of Origin

REGION:Apulia

GRAPEVINE:Primitivo di Manduria

FARMING SYSTEM: Apulian sapling

SOIL COMPOSITION: Prefers medium-textured, calcareous clay soils, deep

HARVEST PERIOD:September

VINIFICATION: Pure vinification, cold maceration, fermentation with selected yeasts, malolactic fermentation carried out, aging first in steel and then in barrique

ALCOHOL CONTENT: 14 % vol

AGING: aged in 225l first-passage French oak barrels for about 12 months

PAIRINGS GASTRONOMIC: Mediterranean pasta dishes dressed with meat sauce, red meats, game and aged cheeses

SERVING TEMPERATURE:15°-18°

CHARACTERISTICS: Intense ruby red color tending to purplish, balanced warm, persistent and well structured, the wine has distinctive aroma with aromas of plum jam, delicate hints of red fruits, light spicy note

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