Primitivo Manduria Decapolis Dop 2018 Luca Attanasio

The name of this wine symbolizes the Dodecàpoli Messapica. As well as the ancient Etruscan Dodecapoli and that of Ionia included twelve cities, all located in the current Salento: Alezio, Ugento, Brindisi, Vereto, Otranto, Ceglie Messapica, Manduria, Mesagne, Nardò, Oria, Cavallino, Roca. The twelve autonomous city-states were a real political-military organization with its own king and its own laws, but they all belonged to the Messapian civilization. Almost all of them were surrounded by walls and dominated by the acropolis where the palaces, the temples of the deities and the agora, the people's square, the market and the meeting squares stood and also included the surrounding area with the villages, the military outposts and ports, in addition to the countryside destined for cultivation and grazing.Luca Attanasio Dodecapolis Primitivo is a wine with an intense red color. The nose is characterized by intense and complex aromas of ripe berries and plums. In the mouth it is rich, warm, deep, with enveloping fruity aromas, with a great structure. Good tannins and balanced freshness with a great final persistence.