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Apollonio Elfo Negroamaro Salento Rosato

R 215.00

Apollonio Elfo Negroamaro Salento Rosato is very intense and fragrant with notes of berries and cherry on the nose. Dry and soft to the taste, with good balance and crisp, refreshing acidity.

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🔎 Vivino | Wine-Searcher 🍇

Apollonio Elfo Negroamaro Salento Rosato is very intense and fragrant with notes of berries and cherry on the nose. Dry and soft to the taste, with good balance and crisp, refreshing acidity.

  • Brand: Apollonio
  • Description: Dry Rosé
  • Vintages Available: 2021
  • Country, Region: Italy, Puglia
  • Appellation: IGP
  • Ratings: WE 86 (2019)

Grapes

100% Negroamaro

About the Producer

In 1870 Noè Apollonio planted his own vineyard and produced wine for the first time. He owned a winery in his hometown Aradeo, in ‘Via dei Pozzi Dolci”, the street of wineries and pasta-makers. It was in this plant that he first turned into wine Negroamaro and Primitivo grapes harvested on chalky-clay soils from the nearby villages.

Driven by the same passion inherited from his father Noè, son Marcello proved to be just as hardworking and enthusiastic. After moving to the town of Maglie, he bought some vineyards and rented various wine plants all across the Salento territory. The increased production helped to satisfy his numerous clients, especially those from northern Italy. In fact, Salento’s wine - due to its high alcoholic content - then served as an excellent “blending wine” and wine merchants from Piedmont, Veneto, Lombardy and Tuscany bought it in bulk to bottle their wines.

At the end of World War II, while poverty was slowly giving way to an economic boom and the market was changing, Marcello’s son, Salvatore, realized that it was time to take advantage of new business opportunities. By introducing business management, he started a new era characterized by a more modern and efficient production, and in 1975 began bottling high-quality wines under the Apollonio brand.

Today and since 1995, Marcello and Massimiliano Apollonio represent the family’s fourth generation. Driven by enthusiasm and passion as well as by experience acquired on the field, they have been pursuing the ambitious goal of expanding the reach of their wines beyond the national borders. Under their new management, Apollonio has specialized in wine aging and expanded its retailing network. Apollonio’s wines are now sold in 35 countries, where they are greatly appreciated for their intrinsic quality and for telling the story of a family and a territory whose identities and authenticity have been left untouched.

Vineyard

Salento lies east of the Apulia region, in the deep south of Italy. Warm and friendly and preserved by a centuries-old isolation, it has kept its genuine folklore and ancient wine-growing tradition alive. Being as it is the heel of the boot-shaped Italian peninsula as well as its easternmost part – from the beautiful cliffs of the Adriatic Sea to the gentle, sandy beaches of the Ionian sea – Salento boasts the highest number of DOC wines produced in Apulia.

The production area is mostly flat, dotted with a few low hills. From a geological point of view, the region has a calcareous structure. Except for a few areas, its ground is mostly rocky, made up of stony layers and chalky banks.

Negroamaro, native to Puglia, is the main black grape variety of Salento. Its origins are quite ancient (8th century B.C.) and likely owes its name to the terms "niger" (Latin) and "mavros" (Greek) which both refer to the colour black. Its great versatility makes it suitable for all types of winemaking.

Vinification

Soft pressed to preserve the fruity and floral taste with short contact of the must with the skins for about 10 - 12 hours. This is followed by about two weeks of slow fermentation at a controlled temperature in steel tanks.

Ageing

Apollonio Elfo Negroamaro Salento Rosato ages in stainless steel for 2 months before bottling.

Tasting Notes

Apollonio Elfo Negroamaro Salento Rosato is coral pink with very intense and fragrant with notes of berries and cherry on the nose. On the palate, it is dry and soft, with good balance against a lingering, crisp backdrop of acidity.

Analysis

12% alcohol vol.

Food Suggestions

Apollonio Elfo Negroamaro Salento Rosato is ideal as an aperitif and excellent with appetizers, cold cuts, cheese, seafood salad and pizza.

Serving temperature: 12-14°C.

Cellar

Best consumed young, Apollonio Elfo Negroamaro Salento Rosato will keep for 2 years in bottles stored horizontally in cool dark conditions.

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