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Botter's dried-grape Puglia red in its paper wrap. Negroamaro and Merlot picked in October after two weeks drying on the vine, then a few months in oak. Plum, blackberry, vanilla and a little chocolate at 14.5%. From £11.99.
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Drawn from 8,220 Vivino ratings, 628 of them written up, and from the two shops' sheets. Vanilla and oak lead, then plum and blackberry, with raisin and fig behind. Full and soft at 14.5%.
Vanilla, oak and a little chocolate come first. That is what 165 of the 628 written Vivino reviews mention. Then ripe plum and blackberry, with the raisin and fig note that drying the grapes leaves behind, and a touch of leather.
Blackberry
Cherry
Fig
Plum
Raisin
Leather
Cinnamon
Vanilla
ChocolateFull and soft at 14.5%, with supple tannin and light acidity, which is how vinatis describes it. The fruit tastes ripe to the point of jam. Vino.com's sheet says the grapes lost half their weight drying on the vine. The sweetness that comes with that is fruit, not sugar.
Long and warm, with vanilla and spice lasting after the fruit.
A big, easy, oak-and-jam red from one of Italy's largest wine houses, dressed in a paper wrap that makes it easy to spot on a shelf. On Vivino 8,220 ratings average 4.0 out of 5, and the 2019 carried the site's top 2% badge. Drink it young with rich, savoury food, at 16 to 18 degrees.
The 2025 is on sale at vinatis for £11.99, or £10.80 a bottle for two, and at vino.com for £14.30 on offer, down from £19.07. Vinatis lists it among its top 15 Puglia wines on customer votes, with 51 reviews.
Four scores out of ten. It rates highest for someone new to Italian wine, then on value at £11.99, then as an everyday bottle, and well with food.
Soft, sweet-fruited and oaky, with a label you cannot miss. Vinatis calls it a wine everyone loves.
£11.99 to £14.30 for a red that 8,220 Vivino drinkers rate 4.0 out of 5.
Cheap enough for a weeknight, though at 14.5% it is a heavy one.
Ragù, roasts, barbecue and cheese fit. Chilli and light fish do not, and the oak narrows it further.
Generous and fun, but a £12 Puglia IGT does not mark a big night.
Vinatis says drink it by 2031. It is built to be enjoyed young.
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.
The 2025 is in both shops at 14.5%. Vinatis puts its drinking life to 2031. A dried-grape red this soft is at its best in its first few years.
The 2025 is the vintage in both shops. Vinatis puts its drinking life to 2031, and a soft, jammy dried-grape red like this is best in its first few years.
The 2025 is the vintage in both shops. Vinatis puts its drinking life to 2031, and a soft, jammy dried-grape red like this is best in its first few 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.
Vino.com's sheet says the bunches dry on the vine for about fifteen days with the stem cut, losing half their weight before pressing. The label carries the broad Puglia IGT name, and the producer is Botter, founded in 1928 at Fossalta di Piave near Venice.
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 IGT is the region-wide label, so the grapes can come from anywhere in Puglia.
Winery
Fossalta di Piave
Wine area
Made at Casa Vinicola Botter, Fossalta di Piave. Directions
Vino.com's sheet says the bunches lose 50% of their weight drying on the vine. That is half as much wine from the same vineyard, which is why a dried-grape red costs more than a plain Puglia red.
The wine spends three to four months in barrels after a long soak on the skins. Short, but still barrels to buy and cellar space to fill.
The bottle carries the broad Puglia IGT name rather than Primitivo di Manduria or Salice Salentino. That keeps it under £15 while using the same drying trick as far dearer wines.
Botter lists 318 wines on Vivino and has drawn 130,398 ratings there. A red made in that volume spreads the cost of presses, barrels and glass thinly across every bottle.
A 14.5% wine carries £3.33 of duty on the February 2026 rates, and VAT takes a fifth of the price. Roughly £5.30 of the £11.99 is tax before the wine is counted.
Dishes that go with this wine
Vivino's matches are beef, lamb and pasta. Vino.com adds first courses, roasts and aged cheeses. Rich, savoury, salty food is the thread; chilli and delicate fish are not.
Vivino lists pasta among its matches and vino.com puts it with first courses. A slow-cooked meat sauce is soft, sweet and full of fat, and this wine's jammy fruit and supple tannin sit right alongside it.
Try with: Ragu alla bolognese · Lasagna · Anelletti al forno · Agnolotti del Plin · More pairings →
Vivino's matches are beef and lamb, and vino.com says roasts. Roast meat is rich, and a full, 14.5% red has the weight to meet it, while the wine's ripe fruit keeps the plate from feeling heavy.
Try with: Sunday Roast Beef · Roast Lamb with Mint Sauce · Steak and Kidney Pie · Venison Stew · More pairings →
Pork is rich but mild, so it needs a wine with body rather than bite. This one is soft and full, and its vanilla and spice notes match the herbs and fennel that usually go with pork.
Try with: Porchetta · Porceddu · Pampanella · Lucanica · More pairings →
The vanilla, chocolate and dried-fruit notes in this wine are the same notes a sweet barbecue rub puts on meat. Smoke and char make a ripe red taste even fruitier.
Try with: BBQ ribs · Pulled pork · Ribeye steak · Lamb chops · More pairings →
Aged cheese is on vino.com's list and vinatis suggests cured meat. Salt makes a ripe, warm red taste fruitier and less alcoholic, which suits a wine at 14.5% with this much jammy fruit.
Try with: Caciocavallo farcito · Pecorino sardo e pan carasau · Fonduta · Frico · More pairings →
Chilli heat makes a 14.5% wine taste hot and hollow. Delicate fish has the opposite problem: a wine this full and jammy simply buries it.
Skip with: Chicken madras · Szechuan beef · Baccala Mantecato · Polenta e schie · Pairing guide →
Vinatis says drink it by 2031. Serve it at 16 to 18 degrees; vino.com goes a touch warmer at 18 to 20.
Best in the years above; holds without falling over either side.
A short splash decant softens the first-pour edge and opens the aromatics.
Vinatis says drink it by 2031. It is built to be enjoyed young.
£11.99 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 · MediumNegroamaro and Merlot, according to both shops that sell it; Vivino lists Primitivo as well. All are grown in Puglia and dried before pressing, which is what the word on the label, Appassimento, means.
Vino.com's sheet says the grapes are picked in October after about fifteen days drying on the vine with the stem cut, losing half their weight. The skins then sit in the juice for a long time, and the wine spends three to four months in barrels.
Vanilla, oak and a little chocolate, then ripe plum and blackberry with a raisin note underneath. It is full and soft at 14.5%. On Vivino 8,220 ratings average 4.0 out of 5.
Meat ragù, roast beef and lamb, roast pork, barbecue and aged cheese. Vivino's matches are beef, lamb and pasta; vino.com adds roasts and aged cheeses.
The wrap-around paper label is how Botter dresses this wine, and vinatis lists it under that name. It is packaging, not a clue to the winemaking.
From £11.99 at vinatis, or £10.80 a bottle when you buy two, and £14.30 on offer at vino.com, down from £19.07.
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