Salento Aleatico Passito - Cantine Due Palme

€16,86

Salento Aleatico Passito - Cantine Due Palme

Salento IGP(50 cl)

€16,86

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Food pairing

Aged cheese Desserts

Serve with almond pastries, dark chocolate desserts, ricotta tart, blue cheeses and aged pecorino.

How to serve it

Temperature14-16 °C

The wine

Denomination: Salento IGP
Region: Puglia
Country: Italy
Bottle size: 0.5 L
Allergens: Contains sulfites

Tasting notes

Deep ruby, dense in the glass. The nose is strikingly aromatic for a red: dried cherry and fig over rose petal, orange peel and sweet spice. The palate is velvety and sweet without turning heavy, the dried-fruit concentration held in check by fresh acidity, closing long on cocoa and candied citrus.

About this wine

Cantine Due Palme is a growers' cooperative in Cellino San Marco, deep in the Salento peninsula of Puglia, drawing on hundreds of small vineyard holdings across the flat, sun-struck land between the Adriatic and the Ionian seas.

Aleatico is one of Salento's old curiosities: a dark-skinned, aromatic grape related to Muscat, grown here in small quantities and traditionally made sweet. The bunches are left to dry after picking, concentrating sugar and perfume before a slow fermentation stops short, leaving natural sweetness in the wine.

The result sits apart from the usual Italian dessert styles — red rather than golden, scented rather than merely sweet, and bottled in a half-litre format meant to be shared at the end of a meal.