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The Wines of Puglia

Wines of PugliaPuglia’s changed….going outside its co-op comfort zone to become one of the South’s most striking viticultural outposts. While it continues to develop and realize its inherent potential beyond a prodigious turnout, it is currently thriving in the high-quality value genre—maintaining impressive numbers while doing so, given fairly moderate production costs. Italy’s heel is getting ever higher, stepping out to claim (some stomping) ground among the well-heeled further up the Boot.

The generous number of Puglian DOCs ostensibly conflicts with the region’s rather limited output of classified wine. Yet, viewed from another perspective, these designations portend and accommodate future productions. As Puglia’s heightened values are mainly projected through its red wine production, many will likely be represented by red, yet (some whites have begun to assert their colors as well) the whites may begin to assert their colors as well.
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Vinosia Malvasia Salento 2009, 750ml Antonio Ferrari Solaria Jonica 1959, 500ml
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Vinosia Malvasia Salento 2009 Antonio Ferrari Solaria Jonica 1959
It may take an outsider like Vinosia to generate attention for Puglia's whites. In fact, Vinosia may just show Puglia what it's missing through this bottling, a unique blend of three clones of the aromatic Malvasia grape (Malvasia di Novoli, Malvasia di Candia Aromatic, Malvasia Candida). With a perfumed bouquet of mango and passion fruit, this is a compelling example of  Vinosia's talent and Malvasia's potential. With the advanced state of the overripe grapes of 1959 dehydrating on the vines, Ferrari had the Primitivo grapes trucked up to his Piemonte vinification center. At the time he had calculated the potential alcohol content to be 21% and expected to create a historically big, high alcohol wine. He had the print shops develop the labels with the estimated alcohol content and began to prepare his distribution. However, during a rapid temperature change in the cool hills of Novara, fermentation stopped at about 14%, leaving residual sugar and a sweetness to the wines. Realizing what had happened and envisioning the wines destiny, he placed the juice for ten years in the best Slovenian casks he could find before leaving it for another 35 years in a cement cask at the Ferrari winery.
   
 
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