Brindisi Rosso
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Brindisi Rosso is a DOC (Denominazione di Origine Controllata) wine from the Southern Italian province of Brindisi, in the region of Puglia (Apulia).
The official appellation was granted on November 22, 1979 with presidential decree (published in Gazzetta Ufficiale, April 23, 1980), under request from Pasquale Medico and Sons and other producers.
In recent years the production of this variety of wine has declined considerably (up to 50%), due to the uprooting of vines as a result incentives from the EU, which favored other products.
The Brindisi region has a very old tradition for wine making, due to the fact that Brindisi was the Roman gateway to the East and thus provided its own wine to Rome along with salt and olive oil imported from the Mediterranean provinces.
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[edit] Production
Brindisi Rosso is produced in small quantities and exported all over the world.
Brindisi Rosso is made mainly from dark Negroamaro grapes (at least 70%) and Malvasia nera di Brindisi; it can also contain smaller quantities of Sussumaniello, Montepulciano and Sangiovese.
[edit] Characteristics
Brindisi Rosso wine appears intense ruby red, with light orange tones when aged; the taste is intense, dry, harmonious, with a lightly bitter aftertaste, velvety e justly tannic.
Minimum alcohol percentage by volume to qualify for the appellation is 12%. The best vintages, however, contain between 13 and 14% ABV. The best recent vintages are 2000 and 2003. The "Riserva" title for Brindisi Rosso can only be granted after three years of aging.
[edit] Production Volume
(In hundreds of liters)
- Brindisi (1990/91) 1333,65
- Brindisi (1991/92) 690,27
- Brindisi (1992/93) 3011,78
- Brindisi (1993/94) 4277,77
- Brindisi (1994/95) 1855,0
- Brindisi (1995/96) 4559,8
- Brindisi (1996/97) 8339,76
