Pillastro Primitivo 2020

“Delicious, smooth wine – a firm favourite for an easily drinkable red with a good body and flavour”

Wine type: Red
Grape type: Primitivo
Country of Origin: Italy
Year: 2020

Packed with spiced plum and raspberry flavour, this is a rich, dark, velvety red. It’s from maestro of Puglia, Angelo Maci, and his pride and joy winery that has twice been voted southern Italy’s finest. A regular customer top favourite.

Pillastro is one of our bestselling Italian reds – customers love all that richness, warmth and bold, ripe fruit. It comes from Puglia, in Italy’s deep south, best known for big, smoky wines made from the prized local variety Primitivo. This 2020 is from Angelo Maci, a hero in the region for standing up to the big guns and championing the small grower. He started the cellar 40 years ago with 15 growers, now there are 1,000 and he knows them all by name. It’s not only growers he saves, but the ancient traditions that make these wines so rich, characterful and super-charged. A leading figure in the quality revolution, he’s now teamed up with his daughter, Melissa, as winemaker. A rich, powerful red and a great match to spicy tomato pasta.

Alcohol content: 13.5%