Events: Vino 2010: Wines of Apulia
The seminar’s moderator, Italian wine expert Charles Scicolone, noted that people often dismiss Puglia wines as “too jammy, pruney, and lacking in acidity,” but most of the wines we tasted today proved that perception wrong. I learned there are three main grapes grown in Puglia: negroamaro, primitivo and uva di troia, also known as nero di troia and often combined with malvasia nera, which is used mainly as a blending grape.
