Felline Societa Agricola
While Puglia and Sicily vie for top spot as Italy’s largest wine producers, until recently both were regarded as bulk wine producers who sent tanker loads of cheap and cheerful reds and whites north to plump out the wines of more fashionable regions. That’s all been changing during the past decade or two thanks to people like Gregory Perucci whose Accademia dei Racemi gathers together Puglia’s most passionate wine producers to make quality wines from local grape varieties. Racemi, based in the Manduria, now offers wines from half a dozen distinctively different vineyards and is widely regarded as one of the region’s leading producers of quality wines, many of which are a match for those of more established regions like Tuscany and Piedmont.
The sixty year old Negramaro vines which produce half the grapes for this blend (the remaining half are Primitivo) help give this wine its lovely deep colour. There’s a good balance between the ..
Medium ruby red. Sweet and spicy aromas of raspberry, milk chocolate, red cherry and violet. Complex and sweet, with very soft tannins, high but harmonious acidity and beautiful generosity and eleganc..
Fascinating wine for every day. The bouquet of ripe wild berries with hints of cocoa and notes of oriental spices continues with its density and softness on the palate and in the finish...
This lovely full-bodied Primitivo has a velvety, vanilla mouth-feel, an intense nose and a long, satisfying finish. The grapes are from 40-year-old vines and the wine has been aged in French and Ameri..
Grown on the seashore near Taranto, this is a unique Primitivo with extra intensity and a sense of the sand dunes and salt water near which the grapes are grown. Aged in large barrels of Slavonian oak..
This wine is the culmination of the love Gregory Perucci (founder of Felline) has for Puglia. After hearing about and researching this littleknown, indigenous Susumaniello grape, which originated and ..
American Zinfandel has its origins in Primitivo from Puglia and this is named to remind us of the connection. Full of elegant aromas of pepper, red cherries and chocolate. You’ll find this ..