Sistina Primitivo Terre di Chieti IGT

A time-honored winemaking history, handed down over the generations, ensures the enduring health and prosperity of the Abruzzo environment, culture and traditions. Three thousand families of winegrowers are the stewards of a centuries-old art of viticulture, renewed with every coming generation.

Wine Production

The picked grapes are vinified by a long maceration of the skins with submerged cap at controlled temperature. Wine is racked off, pumped over and decanted into stainless steel tanks at the end of the malolactic process.

Tasting Notes

Rich and persistent, on the palate is full bodied and harmonious with a pleasant aftertaste of red fruit.

Food Pairing

Important first courses, red meats, grilled meat or stews, game and mature cheeses.

WINEMAKING & AGING

Grapes: Primitivo.

Refinement:stainless steel tanks and oak barrels

Alcohol content:14% Vol.

Service temperature:61/64 °F.

Type of aging container: stainless steel tanks and wooden barrels.