'Auro' Primitivo di Manduria DOP Vecchia Torre 2017

Primitivo di Manduria Auro was born in the Salento countryside and precisely in Leverano, a land where Negroamaro and Primitivo dominate unchallenged. The Vecchia Torre winery is a social cooperative born in 1959 from the union and dream of 44 producers, who today have become more than a thousand and together produce over 3 million bottles. The wine culture of the area is so deeply felt that every year in July Leverano hosts the Torre Vecchia Wine Festival. The company has gone from exporting blended wines (in the post-war period) to the production of prestigious labels, some of which are kept in the cellar dug out of the rock. The red "Auro" Primitivo di Manduria DOP is one of these excellences, a 100% Primitivo aged in wooden and steel barrels after soft destemming. The name itself derives from the refinement of the wine, which comes from sapling vines that are at least 40 years old. A red for the whole meal that boasts good structure, body and freshness.