wine.gifI will prob­ably betray my rather unre­fined pal­ate with post, but its all about hon­esty right? Tasted a grape that I hadn’t tried before on Monday night. The Italian Prim­it­ivo. Its appar­ently a rel­at­ive of the Zin­fan­del and is har­ves­ted from the heel of the Italian boot…so appet­iz­ing. Appar­ently both the Prim­it­ivo and Zin­fan­del can be traced to vines ori­gin­at­ing in Dal­ma­tia some­time in the sev­en­teenth cen­tury. The Prim­it­ivo is gen­er­ally fairly high in alco­hol con­tent, yet it tends to be more on the fruity side, with a spicy fin­ish. I was quite impressed. I’ll have to get the label off the bottle I had.

I did find a 2003 A. Mano Prim­it­ivo (product id 972588 — can’t link dir­ectly to a page in their less than user friendly site) at LCBO vin­tages and it was quite deli­cious another Amer­ican site men­tions the Amer­ican wine­maker in Puglia who is actu­ally fash­ion­ing this fine stuff. So, I throw this out to you as a Shawn pick for all that’s worth.