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750ml
Bottle: $14.08 $14.82
12 bottles: $11.40
A more fun style than your typical Shiraz, this fresh, fruity, semi-sweet wine displays aromas and flavors of ripe,...
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750ml
Bottle: $16.24
12 bottles: $15.92
Deep ruby red with violet reflections. Intense fruity bouquet with notes of plum and cherry, hints of Mediterranean...
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750ml
Bottle: $21.94
12 bottles: $21.50
COLOR: Intense deep red color with purple hues. NOSE: The nose reveals rich aromas of plum, black cherry and spices,...
Red
750ml
Bottle: $16.16
12 bottles: $15.84
COLOR: Deep ruby red color. NOSE: Intense fruity nose with aromas of blackberry and plum. FLAVOR: In the mouth it is...
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750ml
Bottle: $17.09
6 bottles: $16.75
A balanced, medium-bodied red, with light tannins and a subtle underpinning of fresh, loamy earth layered with...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $14.41 $15.17
12 bottles: $12.36
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $14.90 $15.59
12 bottles: $14.60
Dense ruby red with a purplish rim, it is immediately intense on the nose with marked aromas of ripe and fleshy red...
Red
750ml
Bottle: $16.66
12 bottles: $15.83
Dark, brooding and spicy, the 2019 Primitivo di Manduria lifts up with notes of crushed rocks, cardamom and black...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $16.90 $18.00
Raspberry coulis and fresh soil with grass popping through on the nose turns to an almost cake-like raspberry and...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $13.93 $15.00
12 bottles: $13.65
100% Primitivo. Perrini's Primitivo comes from estate vines averaging 30 to 35 years old, with some getting up to 60...
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750ml
Bottle: $14.94
12 bottles: $14.64
Opaque ruby. There is a savory, earthy aroma on the nose, reminiscent of meat cooking on an open fire. The palate is...
Red
750ml
Bottle: $11.95
12 bottles: $11.71
Monastrell made in eighty-year-old conofors (think dairy tanks but made of American oak). Filtered by gravity and,...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $18.00
12 bottles: $17.64
Intense and complex of ripe red pulp fruit (cherry, plum, raspberry) in a balanced bottling with light wooden notes....
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $22.80
Dark ruby red, with garnet hues. It opens with notes of ripe blackberry and raspberry, followed by intense aromas of...
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Dessert/Fortified Wine
750ml
Bottle: $21.90 $22.80
12 bottles: $21.66
Black Muscat, another under appreciated muscat variety, is known in Europe as a table grape variety, Muscat Hamburg,...
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750ml
Bottle: $23.90
12 bottles: $23.42
Essensia is a full-bodied sweet wine made with Orange Muscat grapes. The experience of Essensia is unmistakable: a...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $15.83 $17.59
12 bottles: $13.18
Tormaresca Neprica Primitivo is an intense ruby red color with violet hues. The nose offers aromas of red fruit,...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $25.27 $28.08
6 bottles: $24.00
Well-balanced and appealing, this medium-bodied red features a core of ripe and baked black cherry fruit, with light...
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750ml
Bottle: $12.13
12 bottles: $11.52

Dessert Wine Primitivo 750ml

As with many European grape varietals, there is some debate regarding the precise origins of the Primitivo grape. Most people now agree that it probably came from Croatia, where it is still used widely in the production of red wine, and it known as Tribidrag. However, today it is a grape most commonly associated with the powerful red wines of Puglia, the heel of Italy’s boot, where the intense sunshine and brisk Mediterranean breezes produce grapes of remarkable character and balance. Primitivo is a dark grape, known for producing intense, inky, highly tannic wines, most notably the naturally sweet Dolce Naturale and the heavy and complex Primitivo di Manduria wines. Primitivo tends to be naturally very high in both tannin and alcohol, making it ideal for both barrel and cellar ageing, which brings out its more rounded and interesting features.


Primitivo is not the easiest grape to grow or manage, and it has had something of a difficult century. Indeed, by the 1990s, there was little interest in Puglian wines in general, and winemakers were neglecting their Primitivo vineyards and looking to other, more commercially viable varietals. However, the last decade has seen this grape come well and truly back into fashion, with new techniques and a heightened interest in native Italian grape varietals bringing Primitivo back into the spotlight. It is now widely loved for its intensity and ability to be paired with strongly flavored foods.