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It’s November and the 2007 wine is ready.
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Red and full of flavour, the new wine of 2007 is best accompanied by roast meats but also excellent with chestnuts or wild mushrooms.
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It is light, full of flavour and appreciated even by those who are not great wine drinkers. The new wine has been available since 11th of November, also the celebrated day of San Martino, for tasting, until the end of March.
This is not an insignificant wine but is considered equal in popularity to the French Beaujolais Nouveau. The new young wine is obtained from grapes of 40 vines from the D.O.C. (vino a Denominazione di Origine Controllata – wine from a specific and well defined area) and 160 of the I.G.T (vino a Indicazione Geografica – wine from a specific area).
The new wine is enormously flavoursome. Individual experts who taste the very lively deep purple coloured wine have described it as smelling of sweet violets, irises, raspberries and even as strawberry flavoured bubblegum.
The grapes are pressed together in a steel tank allowing carbon dioxide to enter. The grapes remain in the container for about two weeks at a temperature of 28-30 degrees, during which time fermentation is activated with enzymes turning the sugar into alcohol, stimulating the production of glycerol (sometimes known as glycerin). The main ingredient which gives the wine its smoothness, allows the colour to be extracted, gives it its unique flavour, whilst controlling the release of tannin responsible for the astringency levels.
The grape is pressed and continues normal fermentation, completed within four to six days. On completion of the transformation of the must, it is decanted and filtered. The new wine is therefore produced from double fermentation procedures without further refinement or ageing.
(Wine tasting at Il Giardino della Signora - Ceglie Messapica)
In a quiet corner of the old town of Leverano, a few kilometres from Lecce, is the location of the tenth edition of the festival of the new wine – “Il Novello in Festa” – here you find stands set up for wine-tasting but there are some typical local specialities available to try too. Not forgetting the entertainment by a few contemporary musical groups, theatrical organisations and animated shows.
The organisers, “Salone del Vino Novello di Puglia”, of the IL Novello in Festa wanted to create a forum which gave adequate limelight to the Pugliese production of the new wine.
Consequently this festival has become an important fixed reunion in the Puglia calendar of events. But after several requests from numerous businesses, this year’s edition will also review the best wines of Puglia as well as the new wines. - "Salone dei novelli e vini di Puglia".
But “Novello in Festa”, has always traditionally been seen as a venue for entertaining and this year has offered cultural and social opportunities, for example the demonstration of the “L'Italia e l'ONU contro la fame nel mondo” – Italy and the United Nations fight against world famine. In association with “Giornata Mondiale dell'alimentazione” – World Food Day, as organised by the Minister of Internal Affairs. Thanks too, are given to the Province of Lecce and the Institute of Mediterranean Culture who are associated with the project concerned with “Salento Negramaro”
Original written by Corrado Rodio, Editor of Sette7, in Italian. Reproduced and translated by myself.
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http://www.edizioneieffe.it for 7 euros this is gripping stuff for any wine buff! Cin! Cin!
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