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Cantine Ermes
A soft, jammy Primitivo from Puglia's Salento, made by the Cantine Ermes co-op for its UK Masseria Limandi label. Plum, cherry jam and a touch of spice, with ripe tannins. Drink it young with pizza, ribs or lasagna.
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Cantine Ermes ferments its Puglia Primitivo in steel tanks for 8 to 10 days and bottles it young. The 2025 comes from a harvest the Italian press called a year of great quality for Salento's Primitivo. The notes below draw on the producer's own description and on 89 Vivino ratings.
Plum and cherry jam lead, which is exactly how Cantine Ermes describes its Puglia Primitivo. A light dusting of spice sits behind the fruit. None of it comes from oak: the wine is made in steel tanks.
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VanillaSoft and rounded, with ripe tannins that do not grip. The fruit is sweet-edged rather than sharp, which fits a 2025 harvest whose grapes, Italian press reported, promised full and intense wines. It is a medium-bodied red that does not run hot.
Short to medium, with the touch of vanilla the producer's note mentions and a return of plum. It fades cleanly rather than lingering.
An easy, fruit-first Primitivo for pizza and barbecue nights. Vivino drinkers rate it 3.7 out of 5 across 89 ratings: liked, not loved. It is a simple, everyday wine from Cantine Ermes's Puglia cellars, priced a step above supermarket Primitivo at £13. Drink it within three years.
Masseria Limandi is a label made for the UK, and Majestic is the only UK shop we have seen it in, at £13 a bottle. Puglia IGP Primitivo is among the cheapest Italian reds on UK shelves, so this is the mid-market version. Prices here are read from the shop's own page.
High marks for beginners and weeknights, low for the cellar. A soft £13 Primitivo from a large Puglia co-op is built for easy drinking, and the scores below say so.
Soft, fruit-first and low on grip: the shape of red most new drinkers like straight away, and Primitivo is a famous name to start with.
Made to open on a weeknight, under £20 and happy with pizza or a takeaway; only the price keeps it from scoring higher.
Soft ripe tannin, modest acidity and jammy fruit suit barbecue, pizza and tomato bakes, but the low acidity limits it with lighter dishes.
At £13 from Majestic for a co-op Puglia IGP Primitivo rated 3.7 on Vivino: sound, but a step above what similar Puglia reds cost in supermarkets.
An entry-level regional IGP from a large co-op, sold under a UK label: pleasant, but not a bottle to mark an occasion with.
IGP label, steel tanks, no barrel ageing and a two-to-three-year drinking window: nothing to gain from keeping it.
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.
Puglia's 2025 harvest had good growing weather. Italian press reports called it a year of great quality for Salento's Primitivo, with grapes that promised full, intense wines, and volumes up on 2024. This wine is made to drink within three years, so freshness matters more than the year.
2025 had good growing weather in Puglia, and the Italian press called it a year of great quality for Salento's Primitivo, with volumes up on 2024. This is a fresh, steel-made style, so drink it within three years.
2025 had good growing weather in Puglia, and the Italian press called it a year of great quality for Salento's Primitivo, with volumes up on 2024. This is a fresh, steel-made style, so drink it within three years.
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.
Cantine Ermes started in 1998 at Santa Ninfa in western Sicily, set up by growers from Santa Ninfa and Gibellina to rebuild the Belice valley after the 1968 earthquake. It now runs 15 cellars in six regions. In Puglia it works with 513 growers on 3,416 hectares, mostly in Salento, where Primitivo and Negroamaro are the main grapes.
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 Puglia, covering Bari · Barletta-Andria-Trani · Brindisi · Foggia · Lecce · Taranto.
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Made at Cantine Ermes, Santa Ninfa. Directions
Cantine Ermes buys Puglia grapes from 513 member growers across 3,416 hectares and runs three cellars there, so the fruit for this £13 bottle is bought at co-op scale.
The producer's Puglia Primitivo is fermented in steel at 25°C for 8 to 10 days and sold young. No barrels to buy, fill or store, which is why it can sit at £13.
Cantine Ermes states its Puglia Primitivo is picked by machine in late August. A mechanical harvest costs a fraction of hand-picking per hectare.
At £13, roughly £5 goes to the Treasury: about £3 of duty on a 75cl still wine near 13% alcohol, plus £2.17 of VAT.
The 2025 harvest was large and the region's tanks were already full, so Italian press reported bulk Primitivo prices under pressure. That keeps a co-op's grape costs down.
For 2025 the Primitivo di Manduria consortium and farm groups secured a lower permitted yield for Puglia and Salento IGP vineyards, which means fewer bottles per hectare.
Dishes that go with this wine
This is a soft, jammy red with ripe tannin and modest acidity. That shape suits sweet, sticky or tomato-rich food. Cantine Ermes suggests aged cheese, fresh pasta with sauce and cacioricotta, and dishes of pulses and vegetables; barbecue works for the same reason.
Sweet, smoky barbecue sauce meets the wine's jammy plum fruit head on. The ripe, soft tannin does not fight the sugar in the sauce the way a drier, grippier red would. Cantine Ermes makes this Primitivo in steel, so it keeps enough freshness to stop the plate tasting heavy.
Try with: BBQ ribs · Pulled pork · Korean BBQ · More pairings →
Tomato sauce brings acidity and the beef and cheese bring fat. The wine's cherry-jam fruit matches the sweetness of cooked tomato, and its tannin, ripe rather than hard, cuts the richness without drying your mouth.
Try with: Lasagna · Ragu alla bolognese · Pizza Margherita · More pairings →
Salami fat and mild chilli want a red with sweet fruit and gentle acidity. The jammy plum in this Primitivo bridges to the paprika in the salami, and its softness keeps mild heat from flaring up.
Try with: Pizza Diavola · Sfincione, Sicilian Pizza · Pizza Margherita · More pairings →
The protein in roast beef softens what little tannin the wine has, and the plum fruit lifts a plain roast. Keep the gravy meaty rather than sweet, and it also copes with a shepherd's pie.
Try with: Sunday Roast Beef · Shepherd's Pie · Toad in the Hole · More pairings →
Cantine Ermes lists aged cheeses first on its own pairing note for its Puglia Primitivo. Salt in a hard cheese makes fruit taste sweeter, so the plum and cherry jam step forward. A pecorino is the Puglia choice.
Try with: Cheese board · Pecorino sardo e pan carasau
Serious chilli heat makes alcohol burn and tannin taste bitter, and a jammy red turns cloying against it. Delicate white fish and shellfish are the other miss: the wine's fruit and tannin flatten them.
Skip with: Lamb bhuna · Szechuan beef · Crispy chilli beef · Cozze arraganate · Pairing guide →
Steel tanks, no barrel ageing and an IGP label: Cantine Ermes makes this Primitivo to drink young. Buy it for the next two to three years and keep it somewhere cool. There is no upside in holding it.
Best in the years above; holds without falling over either side.
A short splash decant softens the first-pour edge and opens the aromatics.
IGP label, steel tanks, no barrel ageing and a two-to-three-year drinking window: nothing to gain from keeping it.
£13.00 is the lowest tracked offer for the current vintage and we have no signal of further discounting.
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Confidence · HighA style read drawn from the grape and the appellation, not from this exact bottle. We mark these notes openly so you know what you are reading.
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 · MediumCantine Ermes, a wine co-op founded in 1998 at Santa Ninfa in western Sicily. It now works in six Italian regions. In Puglia it runs three cellars and draws on 513 growers and 3,416 hectares, mostly in Salento, where Primitivo is one of the two main grapes. Masseria Limandi is a label name used for the UK, not a separate estate.
Soft and fruity. Cantine Ermes describes its Puglia Primitivo as plum, cherry jam and a light spice, with ripe tannins and a hint of vanilla on the finish. Vivino drinkers rate it 3.7 out of 5 across 89 ratings, which is fair rather than fine. Expect a medium-bodied red that is easy to drink.
Drink it within two to three years of the harvest. The wine is fermented in steel tanks and bottled young, so it is made for drinking now, not for the cellar. The 2025 on sale now is at its best from 2026 to 2028.
Tomato-rich pasta bakes, pizza and barbecue. The soft tannins and sweet-edged plum fruit sit well with lasagna, sticky ribs and pulled pork. Cantine Ermes itself suggests aged cheeses, fresh pasta with sauce and cacioricotta, and dishes of pulses and vegetables. Avoid very hot chilli dishes and delicate white fish.
Majestic has sold it at £13 a bottle, and in the UK the label has only been seen there. The price shown on this page is read from the shop's own listing, so check it before you travel.
Yes. DNA testing showed that Primitivo and California's Zinfandel are the same grape, known as Tribidrag in its native Croatia. In Puglia it makes deeper-coloured, riper reds than most Italian grapes, and this bottle is a soft, everyday example.
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