🇮🇹 Wine Review: La Fiera Primitivo 2016 (Italy) 🍷🍷🍷🍷
An exciting, value priced wine from northern Italy! I recently brought this wine in for our Limited Reserves series and after buying and tying a bottle, I bought several more... I don't want to let this one slip away without stashing a few more for enjoyment later.
La Fiera, The Fair, in an english translation, features an ornate carousel on the white label, reminiscent of the medieval riding fairs in northern Italy. Sporting the ever more common screw cap, it is quick and easy to get inside and reveal your prize!
Grown in the Salento region of Italy, this jammy concoction delivers an unexpected cedar nose on the pour. Full of luscious fruit flavors, cherry and blackberry roll out on the palate in a soft, medium bodied parade. Tannins are light to medium although the finish remains smooth and long-lasting. I was hooked from the first sip!
It lay in the glass in an inviting, dark ruby pool.
La Fiera Primitivo is an Italian wine made from the same family of grapes as Zinfandel. Descended from the rare Croatian varietal Crljenak, Privitivo is fighting its way towards being officially classified as Zinfandel, much too the chagrin of California wine makers, especially so since Primitivo is so much less expensive than USA Zinfandels.
I enjoyed this fantastic value wine with a steak, baked potato and spinach. La Fiera Primitivo held it's own with the beef and would go along well with lamb, pork, or other red meats. I enjoyed it again the next night (and the following!) with a pulled pork dish I stewed in a crockpot. It was an amazing marriage!
This is my favorite wine, so far, that I have reviewed here on Steemit. I expect that since this is a Limited Reserve, that I will add several more bottles to my collection before it is no longer available in our store. At $10, I can afford to buy and hold a half dozen bottles. La Fiera receives a hearty Four Glasses 🍷🍷🍷🍷rating!
Links to Wine.com featuring La Fiera: https://www.wine.com/product/la-fiera-primitivo-salento-2016/355172
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