IGT Red

Botter Appassimento Rosso Puglia

Casa Vinicola Botter
Grapes
Negroamaro, Merlot
Denomination
Puglia IGT
Region
Puglia
ABV
14.5%
Drink
2025: 2026 to 2031

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%.

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2025 · 75cl · checked 6 Nov · Delivery £6 for 1 to 6 bottles, £0.50 per extra bottle

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Where to buy Puglia IGT Rosso Appassimento Botter

£9.61 best price · 2 retailers with 75cl · 2025 in stock · checked 6 Nov 2026

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Vinatis Best price Save 20% 2025 · 75cl · checked 6 Nov · Delivery £6 for 1 to 6 bottles, £0.50 per extra bottle
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£9.61 was regular price £11.99 £12.81/L
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£13.70 £18.27/L
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Tasting Notes

What Botter's wrap-around Puglia red tastes like

Vanilla and oak lead, then plum and blackberry, with raisin and fig behind. Full and soft at 14.5%, with a few months in barrel after two weeks drying on the vine.

Tasted by
ItalianWines editorial
Tasted on
3 September 2026
Vintage in glass
2025
Source
Drinker consensus · confidence Medium
Typical of Negroamaro
Body Light / Full
Tannins Smooth / Grippy
Sweetness Dry / Sweet
Acidity Soft / Crisp
Nose

Vanilla, oak and a little chocolate come first, every time. Then ripe plum and blackberry, with the raisin and fig note that drying the grapes leaves behind, and a touch of leather.

BlackberryBlackberry
CherryCherry
FigFig
PlumPlum
RaisinRaisin
LeatherLeather
CinnamonCinnamon
VanillaVanilla
ChocolateChocolate
Palate

Full and soft at 14.5%, with supple tannin and light acidity. The fruit tastes ripe to the point of jam. The grapes lost half their weight drying on the vine, and the sweetness that comes with that is fruit, not sugar.

Finish

Long and warm, with vanilla and spice lasting after the fruit.

Overall

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. A well-liked everyday red, and the 2019 was an especially well-liked year. Drink it young with rich, savoury food, at 16 to 18 degrees.

Drink now Best by 2031
Live UK pricing

Buying Botter's Appassimento: two shops, one vintage

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 ranks it among its top 15 Puglia wines on customer votes, with 51 reviews.

Best price · 75 cl · 2025 £9.61 at Vinatis
Price spread · 75cl · 2025 £9.61 - £13.70 Across 2 UK retailers with 75cl · 2025 in stock
Retailers · 75cl · 2025 2UK 2 in stock
Vintages live 2025 Newest vintage on sale here: 2025
Per-litre (75cl · 2025 basis) £12.81 Lowest current 75cl · 2025 offer
Last checked 6 Nov 2026 Refreshed once every 24 hours
Wine fit score

How Botter's Puglia red scores for value, food and everyday drinking

Four scores out of ten.

Best intro to this style 9.0/10

Soft, sweet-fruited and oaky, with a label you cannot miss. An easy wine to love.

Best value 8.5/10

For £11.99 to £14.30 you get a well-liked dried-grape red.

Best everyday bottle 7.8/10

Cheap enough for a weeknight, though at 14.5% it is a heavy one.

Best with food 7.5/10

Ragù, roasts, barbecue and cheese fit. Chilli and light fish do not, and the oak narrows it further.

Best for an occasion 3.5/10
Best for cellar 2.5/10

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.

Denomination Compliance Snapshot

Puglia in five fields

A compact view of what the Puglia denomination actually requires, and how this bottle sits inside it. Pulled from the official Italian disciplinare.

Allowed grapes
57 varieties listed in the disciplinare
This bottle: Negroamaro, Merlot.
Minimum ageing
Recorded by producer
Disciplinare ageing rule not yet recorded.
Region / area
Bari · Barletta-Andria-Trani · Brindisi · Foggia · Lecce · Taranto
Source: Disciplinare.
Style
IGT · Puglia
Classification
IGT (Indicazione Geografica Tipica)
What that means →
Vintages

The 2025 Botter dried-grape red

The 2025 is in both shops at 14.5%. Its drinking life runs to 2031, and a dried-grape red this soft is at its best in its first few years.

2025 Newest vintage on sale here
Best price
£9.61
Retailers
2 in stock
ABV
14.5%
Window
Drink now through 2031

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.

2025 Newest vintage on sale here
Best price
£9.61
Retailers
2 in stock
ABV
14.5%
Window
Drink now through 2031

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.

The disciplinare, the place, the label

A dried-grape red from Puglia, labelled Puglia IGT

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.

01

DOC, DOCG, IGT: what the badges mean

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.

02

The denomination rules, in detail

  • Allowed grapes. 57 varieties listed in the disciplinare
  • Yield ceiling. 26.0 tonnes per hectare
  • Tasting panel. No mandatory pre-release tasting at IGT level
03

Region and area context

Puglia IGT is the region-wide label, so the grapes can come from anywhere in Puglia.

The zone the estate stands in The producer

Producer: Casa Vinicola Botter, Fossalta di Piave. Directions

04

Reading the label

  • Casa Vinicola BotterProducer / estate
  • Negroamaro · MerlotGrape varieties
  • Puglia IGTGeographic indication and quality tier
  • 2025Vintage of the 75 cl bottle on sale here
  • 14.5% vol · 75 clAlcohol by volume and bottle size
05

What sits behind the price of Puglia IGT Rosso Appassimento Botter

Tracked from
£9.61
Direction
Mostly cost up
Drivers
3 up / 2 down
Main factor
Drying the grapes costs half the juice
  1. 01

    Drying the grapes costs half the juice

    Cost up

    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.

  2. 02

    Three to four months in barrels

    Cost up

    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.

  3. 03

    Puglia IGT on the label, not a famous name

    Cost down

    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.

  4. 04

    Made at scale by one of Italy's biggest wine houses

    Cost down

    Botter is one of Italy's biggest wine houses, with a range that runs to more than 300 wines. A red made in that volume spreads the cost of presses, barrels and glass thinly across every bottle.

  5. 05

    UK duty and VAT

    Cost up

    A 14.5% wine carries £3.33 of duty on the February 2026 rates, and VAT takes a fifth of the price.

01

Drying the grapes costs half the juice

Cost up

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.

Perfect Pairings

Dishes that go with this wine

Casoncelli, plated

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Food Pairing

Full, soft and 14.5%: what fits this Botter red

Beef, lamb and pasta first, then first courses, roasts and aged cheeses. Rich, savoury, salty food is the thread; chilli and delicate fish are not.

Tannin softening Strong match

Meat ragù and baked pasta

Pasta and first courses are natural matches. 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 →

Fat cutting Strong match

Roast beef and lamb

Beef and lamb suit it, roasts above all. 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 →

Body matching Good match

Roast pork and sausages

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 →

Aromatic bridge Good match

Barbecue with sweet rubs

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 →

Salt balance Good match

Aged cheese and cured meat

Aged cheese and cured meat both work. 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 →

Avoid Clash

Skip fierce chilli and delicate fish

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 →

Drinking + cellar

Keeping Botter's dried-grape red: drink it young

Drink it by 2031. Serve it at 16 to 18 degrees, or a touch warmer at 18 to 20.

Drinking window
2025: 2026 to 2031

For the main offer above.

Decanting
1 hour

A short splash decant softens the first-pour edge and opens the aromatics.

Serving temperature
16-18°C

Aim for the cooler end on a warm day; warmer end opens up more aromatics.

Cellar potential
Low

Drink it by 2031. It is built to be enjoyed young.

Buy now or wait?
Buy now

£9.61 for a 75cl bottle of the 2025, at Vinatis, is the best price we track, and we have no signal of further discounting.

Sources & trust

Sources behind this Botter page

Prices & stock

Read directly from each retailer’s public product page several times a week. Last refresh: 6 Nov 2026, 05:00 BST. We do not hold stock and we do not accept payment for placement.

Confidence · High
Tasting notes

Drawn from published drinker ratings, summarised in our own words. A crowd read across many tasters, not a single critic.

Confidence · Medium
Appellation rules & ageing

From the official Italian disciplinare for this denomination, cross-checked against the Ministry of Agriculture register.

Confidence · High
Why it costs what it costs

Our reading of the price, from how this wine is made, the rules of its appellation, UK duty and VAT and the price shops charge for it today. Not a quote from the producer or a retailer.

Confidence · Medium
Drink window & cellar potential

The drinking years for the main offer apply to its 2025 vintage. Treat them as advice, not a forecast for the bottle in your hand.

Confidence · Medium
Related

Botter's Puglia red, its grapes, region and pairings

Producer
Casa Vinicola Botter Veneto
Grapes
Negroamaro Merlot
Denomination
Puglia IGT
Region
Puglia Region guide
Cuisine
Italian Cuisine 1 dish paired

Common Questions

Negroamaro and Merlot; some listings name Primitivo as well. All are grown in Puglia and dried before pressing, which is what the word on the label, Appassimento, means.

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%, and a well-liked everyday red.

Meat ragù, roast beef and lamb, roast pork, barbecue and aged cheese. Beef, lamb and pasta are the classic matches; roasts and aged cheeses follow.

The wrap-around paper label is how Botter dresses this wine, and vinatis sells 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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