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La Fonte d'Oro 2024

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La Fonte d'Oro 2024
Puglia produces terrific, big, spicy red wines and La Fonte d’Oro, made from semi-dried Primitivo and Negroamaro (Puglia’s hero grapes), is especially so. Rich, weighty and packed full of ripe blackberry and spiced plum fruit.
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Wine Details

  • Red - Full Bodied
  • ItalyItaly
  • Deep Blackish Red
  • Negroamaro-based blend
  • 10.125 Units
  • 13.5% ABV
  • 750 ml
  • 02 December 2027

Flavour Profile

Tasting notes
Full bodied, velvety and well structured with great length
Aroma
Dense damnson, plum and vanilla spice aromas
Allergy information
Contains Sulphites
The Wine
La Fonte d'Oro's built up quite a fan club since it first arrived in 2008. It's a velvet-smooth red wine bursting with powerful black fruit thanks to Puglia’s flavour-packed native grape varieties and fine winemaking. Winemaker Simone Cortese uses the finest Negroamaro and Primitivo grapes, two local specialities that ooze dense, ripe fruit character, and dries them after picking to concentrate the flavours even more. Of course, this is a costly way to make wine but the results are impressive. After two weeks’ drying, the grapes are pressed, extracting super-rich, intensely flavoured juice. Six months' ageing in oak adds layers of vanilla and spice to the wine's dark, ripe fruit. Decant and serve with a rich stew.
La Fonte d'Oro's built up quite a fan club since it first arrived in 2008. It's ...
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Yummy. Very smooth and disappears from the glass far too easily/quickly

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For the 2023 vintage

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