| Type | Red |
|---|---|
| Grapes | Negramaro |
| ABV | 14% |
| Volumes | 0.75 L |
| Serving temp. | 16°C |
| Style | Fresh, genuine, convivial Negramaro red |
| Food pairing | Everyday excellence; pasta; grilled meats; convivial occasions; everyday southern Italian table |
Simpotica is the Negramaro wine through which the Garofano estate — whose founder Severino Garofano is credited with creating Negramaro as the wine world knows it today — makes its most accessible and most immediately engaging statement. The name speaks of conviviality and the pleasure of shared company: this is the wine for the table set with friends, for the meal that does not require ceremony, for the everyday excellence that a winery of two centuries' experience in Puglia can produce with assurance.
The estate's twenty hectares of vineyards in Salento — including a genuine ampelographic collection of extinct native varieties that represents one of the most serious indigenous variety preservation efforts in southern Italy — are managed with the clean and sustainable agricultural principles that Severino Garofano established and his heirs continue. The Negramaro that produces Simpotica grows on this organically farmed land with the particular aromatic intensity and mineral character that the Salento territory's specific combination of soil and climate reliably delivers.
On the nose, the wine offers an immediate and engaging aromatic experience: intense and multiple scents from the many agricultural species on the estate — licorice, wild berries, and soft balsamic herbs — catch the olfactory perceptions at first contact, followed by flowers and fruits that emerge into tasting. The licorice note is one of the most characteristic signatures of Negramaro from Salento, appearing consistently in the best expressions of the variety.
On the palate, the wine demonstrates the qualities that make Simpotica precisely what its name suggests: a taste so fresh and genuine that it catches the palatal sensitivity with truthful and elegant tannins in their utmost sapidity, filling the tasting experience with originality and brilliance. A long and persistent flavour with the dry bitter vein typical of Negramaro rounds out the experience in a way that calls for the next sip as naturally as the first.
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