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Giordano's Puglia IGT pairing of Cabernet Sauvignon with Zinfandel, the grape Puglia grows as Primitivo: soft, velvety black fruit, violet and spice, now fully mature. The 2007 ships gift-boxed, a birth-year bottle to open rather than cellar.
Giordano's scheda for this cuvee promises violet, pepper and spice over a soft, velvety palate. Nineteen years of bottle age have moved the blackberry and black cherry that Vivino's 306 ratings most often mention towards prune, leather and tobacco leaf: expect a mellow, fully mature glass.
Violet, pepper and spice lead Giordano's own scheda for this cuvee, and that floral, peppery print is still the signature. Nineteen years on, the blackberry and black cherry that Vivino drinkers most often log have dried towards prune, with leather and a tobacco-leaf edge from age.
Violet
Black cherry
Blackberry
Prune
Tobacco
Leather
Black pepperSoft and velvety is the producer's claim and age has only deepened it: medium-bodied, with melted tannin, mature black cherry and prune fruit, and a trace of the thick, unctuous texture the retailer's 2007 datasheet records. Acidity is modest, as you would expect of Puglia's warm, early 2007 harvest.
Medium length and warm, closing on the sweet spice and black pepper of Giordano's sheet as the fruit fades; no grip left to speak of.
A 3.1 Vivino average across 306 ratings marks the cuvee as honest everyday wine, and the 2007 is now a mature curiosity rather than a fine-wine piece: past its 2012 peak, soft, and ready on opening. Buy it gift-boxed as a 2007 birth-year or anniversary bottle, and drink it the week it arrives.
Vintage Wine Gifts holds the 2007 at £59.97, shipped in a silk-lined wooden presentation box with corkscrew, pourer, drip stopper and thermometer, plus a personalised gift card. The price pays for a preserved 2007 and its packaging rather than the everyday blend inside.
Scored honestly: high for occasion gifting, very low for cellaring, middling with food on its soft, medium-bodied frame. A 3.1 Vivino average across 306 ratings says ordinary wine; a preserved 2007 in a wooden gift box is what you are actually buying.
A 2007 birth-year or anniversary bottle shipped in a silk-lined wooden box with a personalised card: gifting is exactly what this listing is for.
Melted tannin and medium body suit roast and braised meats, baked pasta and aged pecorino, but modest acidity keeps it away from rich, fatty or fiery extremes.
The soft, velvety texture is easy for a newcomer, but fully tertiary prune and leather flavours, and bottle variation, are not what a first-time drinker expects of red wine.
£59.97 buys nineteen years of storage, a silk-lined gift box and a scarce surviving 2007; the current release of this Vivino 3.1 cuvee sells for single-figure euros, so the liquid alone does not carry the price.
Scoring is rule-based and deterministic. The model and weightings are documented in our Wine Fit Score methodology.
A compact view of what the Puglia denomination actually requires, and how this bottle sits inside it. Pulled from the official Italian disciplinare.
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Puglia's 2007 harvest was small, early and warm, judged very good at the time, and the retailer still leads with it. In an everyday blend the vintage peaked around 2012, so what is left is tertiary charm: open it for the occasion, not the cellar.
Puglia's small, early 2007 harvest was judged excellent by Italian oenologists, all warmth and concentration. An everyday blend from it has long since peaked, so open it for the toast rather than the tasting note.
Puglia's small, early 2007 harvest was judged excellent by Italian oenologists, all warmth and concentration. An everyday blend from it has long since peaked, so open it for the toast rather than the tasting note.
Drink-now / hold guidance reflects general style cues for this wine, not a forecast for a specific bottle. Where vintage-level editorial notes exist, they appear above.
Puglia IGT is the region-wide indication spanning all six Puglian provinces, Taranto included, where Giordano vinifies this blend at its Torricella cantina. That frame is what allows a Piedmont house to blend Cabernet Sauvignon with local Primitivo and label it by its American synonym, Zinfandel.
Italian wine law sorts bottles into a pyramid. DOCG sits at the top: tightly drawn boundaries, prescribed grapes, mandatory ageing, government tasting before release. DOC is the same idea with looser thresholds. IGT (Indicazione Geografica Tipica) is broader still, requiring only that 85% of the grapes come from the named territory.
Puglia is in the IGT tier. That is not a quality verdict, it is a description of how much freedom the producer has at vinification and ageing.
Puglia falls within Apulia , covering Apulia.
Giordano's Cabernet Sauvignon Zinfandel is made for drinking on release; sound surviving 2007 stock is scarce, and keeping it cellared and insured since 2007 is most of what the £59.97 pays for.
The listed bottle ships in a silk-lined wooden presentation box with corkscrew, pourer, drip stopper and thermometer, accessories the retailer itself values at £17.99, plus a personalised gift card.
Giordano sells without intermediaries and vinifies this Puglia IGT blend at scale in Torricella; the current release of the same cuvee sells for single-figure euros, which caps what the liquid contributes.
Puglia IGT spans all six provinces of the region, so fruit for this Cabernet Sauvignon and Primitivo blend is bought across a huge area rather than from priced single-vineyard land.
£2.67 still-wine duty plus 20% VAT means roughly £12.67 of the £59.97 is tax before age, scarcity or the wooden box are counted.
Dishes that complement this wine
Giordano matches the cuvee to pasta, soups, meat and cheeses, and Vivino drinkers reach for beef and lamb. At nineteen years the tannin has melted, so roast and braised meats, baked pasta and aged pecorino flatter it; hot chilli does not.
Medium body and tannin long since melted to velvet let this blend sit beside roast beef without wrestling it. Vivino drinkers most often pair the cuvee with beef, and Giordano's own sheet lists plain roast meats.
Try with: Sunday roast beef · Roast lamb with mint sauce · Leg of lamb · More pairings →
What tannin Cabernet Sauvignon brought in 2007 has softened with age, so gelatine-rich braises meet the wine on texture rather than fighting it. The savoury depth of slow-cooked meat also flatters prune and leather notes that fresher dishes leave stranded.
Try with: Beef stew · Lamb shank · Venison stew · More pairings →
Giordano's scheda promises violet, pepper and spice, and age has added leather and tobacco: aromatics that bridge naturally to baked pasta, slow ragu and porcini umami. The match works on shared savouriness, not power.
Try with: Lasagna · Agnello ragu lucano · Porcini mushroom risotto · More pairings →
Salt in aged cheese lifts what sweetness remains in the 2007's prune-leaning fruit, while its modest acidity is never pushed beyond its means. A cheese board is the easy route on the night the gift is opened.
Try with: Cheese board · Pecorino sardo e pan carasau · Gorgonzola, pear, and walnut risotto · More pairings →
Capsaicin heat amplifies alcohol warmth and flattens the delicate violet, prune and leather notes that are all a nineteen-year-old everyday blend has left. There is no fresh fruit in reserve to push back.
Skip with: Crispy chilli beef · Lamb bhuna · Szechuan beef · Pairing guide →
No secondary market trades Giordano's everyday Puglia blend; its worth is personal rather than financial. As a bottle from 2007 in a silk-lined presentation box with a personalised card, it marks a birthday, anniversary or graduation year better than its price marks an investment.
Peak around 2012. Best in the years above; holds without falling over either side.
A short splash decant softens the first-pour edge and opens the aromatics.
Past its 2012 peak with a drinking window that closes in 2026: nothing is gained by keeping it, so open it on receipt.
£59.97 is the lowest tracked offer for the current vintage and we have no signal of further discounting.
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Confidence · HighDrawn from what drinkers consistently report on Vivino and Wine-Searcher, summarised in our own words. A crowd read across many tasters, not a single critic.
Confidence · MediumFrom the official Italian disciplinare for this denomination, cross-checked against the Ministry of Agriculture register.
Confidence · HighOur reading of the price, drawn from the disciplinare, public UK duty rates, and typical landed-cost benchmarks. Not a quote from the producer or a retailer.
Confidence · MediumStyle guidance for this kind of wine at this price point. Treat it as advice, not a forecast for the bottle in your hand.
Confidence · MediumYes, but only just: it sits at the very end of its 2009 to 2026 drinking window and peaked around 2012. Built as an everyday blend, the 2007 is now fully mature, all soft prune, leather and sweet spice rather than fresh black fruit. Open it on receipt rather than keeping it, and expect some variation between surviving bottles.
Cabernet Sauvignon and Zinfandel, which Giordano's own sheet calls 'lo Zinfandel o Primitivo': in Puglia they are the same variety. The house vinifies the blend at its Torricella cantina near Taranto, inside the region-wide Puglia IGT.
Vintage Wine Gifts lists the 2007 at £59.97, in stock at the time of writing. It ships in a silk-lined wooden presentation box with corkscrew, pourer, drip stopper and wine thermometer, plus a free gift card carrying your own message.
Stand the bottle upright for a day, then pour gently or decant briefly only to leave sediment behind, not to air a fragile wine. Giordano recommends 18 to 20 C for this cuvee; slightly cooler flatters tired fruit. Drink it within a few hours of opening.
Giordano Vini, the direct-sales house founded in 1900 at Valle Talloria di Diano d'Alba in Piedmont and now part of the listed Italian Wine Brands group. It is a house blend from bought-in Puglian fruit vinified at Giordano's Torricella winery, not an estate bottling.
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