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D'Addario
A full, velvety Primitivo di Manduria from Sava, aged about a year in small French oak barrels. Prune, dried fig, cinnamon and liquorice lead, then coffee and chocolate on a long finish. The 2022 is £20.50 at the one shop on this page.
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D'Addario makes Vignalesta from Primitivo grown around Sava. The soil there is rich in iron over limestone, and the family says it concentrates sugar in the bunches. The wine spends about a year in small French oak barrels, medium toast. The 2022 on this page is labelled 14% alcohol.
Prune and dried fig lead, with cinnamon, liquorice and a vanilla sweetness from about a year in small French oak barrels. Oak shows before fruit at first: chocolate and clove sit over blackberry jam. The 2022 on this page carries the same tasting words on its back label as the family's own sheet.
Coffee
Fig
Forest berries
Prune
Oak
Cinnamon
Liquorice
Vanilla
ChocolateFull-bodied, opulent and velvety, as D'Addario's own note puts it, with the softness a year in medium-toast oak gives. Sava's iron-rich soil over limestone pushes sugar into the bunches. So the fruit tastes ripe, and the 2022 reaches 14% on the label. The texture is smooth rather than grippy.
Long, on coffee and chocolate: the roasted notes of the oak outlast the prune fruit.
One rung below D'Addario's Giaramano Riserva and a clear step up from its Casale Ciliani Primitivo. A big, oaky Primitivo di Manduria for red meat, lamb and game, as the producer suggests. Drink it from now to about 2028. Drinkers rated the 2018 and the 2019 alike, and the oak is the note they mention most.
The one shop on this page sells the 2022 at £20.50, so there is no price to compare here. That is the dearer half of the Primitivo di Manduria wines priced on this site today. In D'Addario's own range it sits between the Casale Ciliani Primitivo and the Giaramano Riserva.
Food is the strongest card: a full, velvety Primitivo with a year of oak is built for lamb, game and ragù. Beginner comes next. The ripe prune fruit, the velvety texture and the chocolate from the oak make it easy to like.
Lamb, game, ragù and aged cheese are the producer's own list. The wine's full body, 14% alcohol and year of oak carry all of them; only chilli heat is a bad match.
Ripe prune and fig fruit, a velvety body and chocolate from the oak are easy to like. The 14% alcohol and the weight of the oak ask for food rather than a sofa glass.
A DOC Primitivo with a year of oak dresses a Sunday roast or a dinner for friends; it is not a bottle to mark a landmark birthday.
At £20.50 from the one shop on this page it sits in the dearer half of the Primitivo di Manduria wines priced on this site today: 38 cheaper, 23 dearer. The money buys a year of French oak and a DOC label.
At £20.50 and 14% it is a weekend-roast bottle rather than a Tuesday one, and the oak needs a plate of meat beside it.
The DOC sets no ageing rule for the plain wine and the 2022 is ready now; drink it by about 2028 rather than laying it down.
Scoring is rule-based and deterministic. The model and weightings are documented in our Wine Fit Score methodology.
A compact view of what the Primitivo di Manduria denomination actually requires, and how this bottle sits inside it. Pulled from the official Italian disciplinare.
Only the 2022 is on sale here: lot L05725 on the back label, bottled for D'Addario at San Pietro Vernotico. The appellation's rules let a Primitivo di Manduria go on sale from the 31 March after harvest. This one spends about a year in small French oak barrels.
The 2022 on this page is labelled 14% alcohol. The producer's sheets, dated 2021 and 2022 and naming no vintage, print 15.5%. After about a year in small French oak barrels it is ready now and should hold to about 2028.
The 2022 on this page is labelled 14% alcohol. The producer's sheets, dated 2021 and 2022 and naming no vintage, print 15.5%. After about a year in small French oak barrels it is ready now and should hold to about 2028.
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.
Primitivo di Manduria DOC covers a ring of towns in Taranto and Brindisi provinces, Sava among them. The rules ask for at least 85% Primitivo and no more than 9 tonnes of grapes per hectare. Adding sugar is banned, and the finished wine must reach 13.5% alcohol. D'Addario's sheet says Vignalesta is 100% Primitivo. The 2018 took a silver medal and 84 points at the 2021 Sommeliers Choice Awards.
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.
Primitivo di Manduria is in the DOC tier. That is not a quality verdict, it is a description of how much freedom the producer has at vinification and ageing.
Primitivo di Manduria falls within Puglia, covering Taranto and Brindisi: the Ionian flank of the Salento around Manduria.
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D'Addario keeps Vignalesta about a year in small French oak barrels, medium toast. That means barrels to buy and twelve months of stock to hold before a bottle is sold.
Of the £20.50 the one shop on this page asks, about £6.64 is tax. Duty is £3.22 on a 75 cl bottle at the 14% on the 2022 label, at £30.62 per litre of pure alcohol for wine of 8.5% to 22% (the rate since 1 February 2026). VAT adds £3.42.
Primitivo di Manduria DOC caps the crop at 9 tonnes of grapes per hectare and bans adding sugar. Ripeness has to come from the vineyard, and fewer bottles come off each vine row.
On the producer's own shop Vignalesta sits below only the Giaramano Riserva and well above the Casale Ciliani line. The UK price carries that position.
The 2022 back label reads 'bottled for Aziende Agricole D'Addario' at a plant in San Pietro Vernotico, Brindisi. The company buys in bottling rather than running its own line.
Dishes that go with this wine
D'Addario's own list is red meat, lamb, game, ragù and aged cheeses. The wine's weight explains why: 14% alcohol, a velvety full body and a year of oak need food with fat and savoury depth. The oak's chocolate and clove sit well with slow-cooked meat. Chilli heat is the one thing to keep away.
Lamb's fat and sweetness meet a wine of the same weight: a full-bodied Primitivo di Manduria at 14% with a velvety texture. The oak's chocolate and vanilla sit beside the browned crust. The prune fruit is big enough not to get lost. Lamb is on the producer's own list.
Try with: Agnello Ragu Lucano · Agnello Cacio e Ova · Spezzatino di pecora · Arrosticini · More pairings →
Red meat leads the producer's own list. A charred ribeye wants a wine with weight and a smoky, sweet edge. This one brings 14% alcohol, a full body and the coffee and chocolate of a year in oak. The velvety texture keeps the meat juicy rather than drying it out.
Try with: Ribeye steak · Sirloin steak · Fillet steak · BBQ ribs · More pairings →
Game is dark, slightly sweet meat, and so is this wine: dried fig, liquorice and prune, a velvety body and a year of oak. A venison stew with a sweet base finds the same notes in the glass. Game sits on the producer's own list.
Try with: Venison Stew · Roast Pheasant · Roast Duck · More pairings →
A long-cooked meat sauce is rich with fat and tomato. This Primitivo has the alcohol and the body to cut through it rather than vanish. Ragù is on the producer's own list, and the chocolate note from the oak picks up the browned meat.
Try with: Ragu alla bolognese · Lasagna · Anelletti al forno · Brasato al Barolo · More pairings →
Salt in an aged cheese makes a ripe, oaky red taste rounder and less hot. That is why aged cheeses close the producer's own list. Strong cheddar or Red Leicester against prune, fig and chocolate works as a cheese course on its own.
Try with: Strong cheddar cheese · Red Leicester · Cornish Yarg · Lancashire Cheese · More pairings →
Chilli heat turns a 14% wine's alcohol into a burn and makes oak taste bitter. A hot curry or a chilli-laden stir-fry fights everything this Primitivo does well. Keep the spice mild, or pick a lighter, fresher Italian red such as a Bardolino for those dishes.
Skip with: Pizza Diavola · Crispy chilli beef · Lamb bhuna · Szechuan beef · Pairing guide →
This is a wine to drink young, not to lay down: from now to about 2028 for the 2022. The DOC sets no ageing rule for the plain wine. D'Addario's year in small oak barrels has already done the softening. Give it a little air before pouring so the oak settles.
Best in the years above; holds without falling over either side.
A short splash decant softens the first-pour edge and opens the aromatics.
Aim for the cooler end on a warm day; warmer end opens up more aromatics.
The DOC sets no ageing rule for the plain wine and the 2022 is ready now; drink it by about 2028 rather than laying it down.
£20.50 for a 75cl bottle of the 2022, at XtraWine, is the best price we track, and we have no signal of further discounting.
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Confidence · HighDrawn from what drinkers consistently report on Vivino, summarised in our own words. A crowd read across many tasters, not a single critic. Drinkers score it 4.4 out of 5 from 235 ratings on Vivino.
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 · MediumPrune, dried fig, cinnamon, liquorice and vanilla on the nose, then a full, velvety palate and a long finish of coffee and chocolate. It spends about a year in small French oak barrels. That is why oak and chocolate come through so clearly. The 2022 on this page is labelled 14% alcohol.
Red meat, lamb, game, a slow-cooked ragù and aged cheeses. That is the producer's own list, and the wine's weight suits all of them. Chilli heat is the one thing to avoid, because it makes a big, oaky red taste harsh.
The one shop on this page sells the 2022 at £20.50 for a 75 cl bottle, so there is no price to compare here. Of that £20.50, about £6.64 is UK duty and VAT.
Drink the 2022 from now to about 2028; it is a wine to enjoy young, not to lay down for decades. Serve it at 16 to 18 C, the producer's own range. Give it a little air so the oak settles.
The DOC ties the wine to a set of towns around Manduria in the provinces of Taranto and Brindisi, Sava among them. It asks for at least 85% Primitivo, no more than 9 tonnes of grapes per hectare and at least 13.5% alcohol in the finished wine. Adding sugar is banned. D'Addario's sheet says Vignalesta is 100% Primitivo. Its Prete Brigante is the family's Puglia IGT Primitivo.
Aziende Agricole D'Addario, a family company based in Taranto. It works with winemaking families in Sava, home of Primitivo di Manduria DOC, and in Turi. The 2022 is bottled for D'Addario at a plant in San Pietro Vernotico, as its back label says.
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