RUBINO TORRE TESTA SALENTO
Classification: red – IGT Salento
Grape variety: Susumaniello
Vineyards location: Brindisi
Altitude: sea level
Soil characteristics: sandy
Training system: Head training and cordon trained, spur pruned
Harvest: first days of October; drying of the grapes for 2/3 weeks
Fermentation: in steel tanks
Maceration: 16 days at controlled temperature
Malolactic fermentation: totally carried out
Ageing: about 1 year in French oak barrique
Bottle ageing: minimum 12 months
Serving temperature: 16-18 °C
TASTING NOTES
Colour: dark garnet red with violet reflections.
Bouquet: clear, elegant, ethereal and complex notes of black cherries and plums in brandy, blackcurrant and blackberry jam, hints of chocolate, juniper, nutmeg, liquorice, cinnamon and ink;
Taste: classy and harmonious, intense with a long finish, the result of strong and fragrant fruit, powerful acidity and incomparable fine tannins, noble and defined;
Characteristics: it’s a real gift from Puglia, a rare and precious wine, a milestone of the Italian oenology, firm and gentle, aristocratic and generous.
Food matches: try with “tajarin piemontesi” in sausage sauce, gnocchi in lamb sauce, pennette in boar sauce, roasted kid leg “delle Murge” , stewed “maialino nero” with potatoes, stewed kidney, ventresca di tonno with tomatoes and capers. Perfect with the Canestrato Pugliese DOP.
