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Salsedine Primitivo Puglia IGT

A brand of Cantine NAE, not an estate

Grape
Primitivo
Denomination
Puglia IGT
Region
Puglia
ABV
15%
Body
Full
Drink
Now to 2028

A full-bodied, soft Primitivo from near Taranto, made by Cantine NAE under its Salsedine label. Wild berries, coffee and black pepper, velvety tannins and 15% alcohol. One UK shop sells the 2025 at £19.50.

Price
£19.30

2025 · 75cl · checked 27 Oct · Delivery usually £16.90, free over £129

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Where to buy Puglia Primitivo IGT Salsedine

£19.30 price · 1 retailer in stock · checked 27 Oct 2026

One shop sells this wine in the UK, so there is no price to compare between shops. Each price is the one on its page today, read daily.

Vino.com Best price 2025 · 75cl · checked 27 Oct · Delivery usually £16.90, free over £129 Code WINE6R8T: £17 off your first wine order with £180 minimum spend, until 13 Jan 2028
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Tasting Notes

What Salsedine Primitivo tastes like

These notes follow Cantine NAE's own sheet for Salsedine Primitivo. It is 100% Primitivo from the south of Puglia, picked by hand in early September and bottled at 15% alcohol.

Tasted by
ItalianWines editorial, from the producer's notes
Tasted on
27 September 2023
Source
Producer notes · confidence High
Body
Full, from the producer's sheet
Typical of Primitivo
Tannins Smooth / Grippy
Sweetness Dry / Sweet
Acidity Soft / Crisp
Nose

Deep ruby with scarlet glints in the glass. Wild berries come first, then coffee, spice and black pepper. The grapes are picked by hand in the first half of September, when they are fully ripe.

CoffeeCoffee
CherryCherry
Forest berriesForest berries
PlumPlum
Black pepperBlack pepper
SpicySpicy
Palate

Full-bodied, soft and balanced. The destemmed grapes spend about two days on their skins at 25°C before a gentle pressing. The wine is rich in velvety tannin, and at 15% alcohol it feels warm and round rather than sharp.

Finish

The finish is pleasant and lasting, warmed by the 15% alcohol.

Overall

A big, soft Primitivo for drinking young: we would open the 2025 between 2026 and 2028. Salsedine is the Puglia line of Cantine NAE, made with small local partner producers near Taranto. Drinkers rate it steadily well, with very few low marks.

Drink now Best by 2028
Live UK pricing

Buying Salsedine Primitivo in the UK

One UK shop sells Salsedine Primitivo, so there is no price to compare. The 2025 costs £19.50 a bottle there, and a little less each when you buy six or more.

Best price · 75 cl · 2025 £19.30 at Vino.com
75cl · 2025 available from Vino.com £19.30, in stock
Vintages live 2025 Current release: 2025
Per-litre (75cl · 2025 basis) £25.73 Lowest current 75cl · 2025 offer
Last checked 27 Oct 2026 Refreshed once every 24 hours
Wine fit score

How Salsedine Primitivo scores for food, value and more

Salsedine Primitivo scores highest as Best intro to this style and Best with food. It is soft and ripe, so it is easy to like, and its full body at 15% calls for hearty dishes.

Best intro to this style 7.4/10

Soft, ripe and easy to like, with wild berries, coffee and velvety tannins rather than hard grip. A friendly first taste of Puglia's best-known grape, though 15% alcohol is high for a newcomer.

Best with food 7.0/10

A full-bodied, soft Primitivo with velvety tannins and 15% alcohol. It shines with rich food such as ragù, grilled red meat, game and aged cheese, but it is too big for delicate dishes and too strong for fiery chilli.

Best everyday bottle 5.8/10

Easy to drink with a weeknight ragù or steak, but at £19.50 and 15% alcohol it is more of a weekend bottle than a daily one.

Best value 4.0/10

At £19.50 it costs more than nearly nine in ten Puglia IGT Primitivo wines listed on this site. It is hand-picked and generous, but you pay above the usual price for a region-wide Puglia IGT.

Best for an occasion 3.8/10

A region-wide Puglia IGT rather than a top appellation, so it suits a relaxed dinner with friends more than a big celebration.

Best for cellar 2.5/10

A young Puglia IGT for drinking soon, not for keeping. We would drink the 2025 between 2026 and 2028, while the ripe fruit is at its best.

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
This bottle: Primitivo.
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 Salsedine Primitivo and its harvest

The bottle on sale is the 2025, picked by hand in the first half of September. Harvest reports from the nearby Primitivo di Manduria area described a hot, dry season with little rain and healthy grapes. We would drink it from 2026 to 2028.

2025 Current release
Best price
£19.30
Retailers
1 in stock
ABV
15.0%
Window
Drink now through 2028

Harvest reports from the nearby Primitivo di Manduria area, between Taranto and Brindisi, described 2025 as hot and dry, with little rain and healthy grapes, and pointed to excellent quality. Drink this young, ripe 2025 from 2026 to 2028.

2025 Current release
Best price
£19.30
Retailers
1 in stock
ABV
15.0%
Window
Drink now through 2028

Harvest reports from the nearby Primitivo di Manduria area, between Taranto and Brindisi, described 2025 as hot and dry, with little rain and healthy grapes, and pointed to excellent quality. Drink this young, ripe 2025 from 2026 to 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.

The disciplinare, the place, the label

Who makes Salsedine: the Puglia line of Cantine NAE

Salsedine is a brand, not an estate. Cantine NAE, a young wine company based in Controguerra in Abruzzo, makes it with small local partner producers near Taranto. Its own winemaking team follows the work from vineyard to cellar, and the company bottles all its wines in Controguerra.

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
03

Region and area context

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

Wine appellations of Puglia
04

Reading the label

  • SalsedineBrand, not an estate
  • PrimitivoGrape varieties
  • Puglia IGTGeographic indication and quality tier
  • 2025Vintage (year of harvest)
  • 15.0% volAlcohol by volume
05

What sits behind the price of Puglia Primitivo IGT Salsedine

Tracked from
£19.30
Direction
Mostly cost up
Drivers
4 up / 1 down
Main factor
15% alcohol and UK tax
  1. 01

    15% alcohol and UK tax

    Cost up

    At 15% alcohol the UK duty is about £3.44 a bottle, and VAT is about £3.25. Of a £19.50 bottle, about £6.70 is tax.

  2. 02

    Priced above most Puglia IGT Primitivo

    Cost up

    Nearly nine in ten Puglia IGT Primitivo wines listed on this site cost less than £19.50. This bottle carries the region-wide Puglia IGT, not a stricter appellation such as Primitivo di Manduria.

  3. 03

    Grapes picked by hand in early September

    Cost up

    Cantine NAE's sheet says the Primitivo is picked by hand in the first half of September. Hand picking takes more people and more time than a machine.

  4. 04

    Made near Taranto, bottled in Abruzzo

    Cost up

    Cantine NAE makes Salsedine with partner producers near Taranto, then bottles all its wines at its cellar in Controguerra, Abruzzo. Moving the wine north before bottling adds a cost a Puglia estate would not have.

  5. 05

    A large, healthy 2025 crop around Taranto

    Cost down

    Next door in Primitivo di Manduria, harvest reports put the 2025 crop about 10% bigger, with fears that grape prices would fall. A large, healthy crop around Taranto tends to ease what grapes cost.

01

15% alcohol and UK tax

Cost up

At 15% alcohol the UK duty is about £3.44 a bottle, and VAT is about £3.25. Of a £19.50 bottle, about £6.70 is tax.

Perfect Pairings

Dishes that go with this wine

Spezzatino di pecora on stoneware bowl with Bay Leaf, Carrot, Mutton

Spezzatino di pecora
Food Pairing

Salsedine Primitivo with ragù, red meat and aged cheese

The producer suggests pasta and other first courses, red meat, game, aged cheese and spiced Asian food. At 15% and full-bodied, this Primitivo wants food with weight and fat. Warm spice works, but fiery chilli does not, because the alcohol makes the burn worse.

Body matching Strong match

Lasagne and slow meat ragù

A full-bodied Primitivo at 15% has the weight to match a slow-cooked meat sauce, so neither the wine nor the dish takes over. Its ripe berry fruit meets the sweetness of cooked tomato, and the velvety tannins soften against the meat and cheese.

Try with: Lasagna · Ragu alla bolognese · Agnello Ragu Lucano · More pairings →

Tannin softening Strong match

Grilled steak and lamb

The fat and charred crust of grilled red meat soften this Primitivo's tannins, so the wine tastes even smoother. The black pepper on the nose picks up the seasoning on the meat.

Try with: Ribeye steak · Rack of lamb · Sirloin steak · Lamb chops · More pairings →

Body matching Good match

Game and slow-cooked stews

Game is one of the producer's own matches for this Puglia Primitivo. A rich stew needs a red with this much body, and the soft, ripe fruit rounds out a dark gravy.

Try with: Venison Stew · Beef stew · Lamb shank

Salt balance Good match

Aged hard cheese

Salt in an aged cheese softens the tannin and makes the ripe fruit of this Primitivo taste sweeter. A full-bodied red like this holds up to strong, nutty cheeses that would flatten a lighter red.

Try with: Pecorino sardo e pan carasau · Cheese board · Caciocavallo farcito

Aromatic bridge Good match

Sweet-glazed Chinese roast meats

The coffee, spice and pepper in this Primitivo echo the five-spice and dark sauces on Chinese roast meats. Its soft, ripe fruit meets the sweet glaze, and the fat softens the tannins.

Try with: Char siu · Peking duck · Crispy pork belly · More pairings →

Avoid Clash

Fiery chilli heat

At 15% alcohol, this Primitivo makes chilli burn hotter, and the heat strips out its soft berry fruit. With a hot curry, a lighter Italian red such as a young Valpolicella copes better.

Skip with: Chicken madras · Szechuan beef · Jungle Curry · Pad kra pao moo · Pairing guide →

Drinking + cellar

How long to keep Salsedine Primitivo 2025

Salsedine Primitivo 2025 is on sale about a year after harvest, while its fruit is young and ripe. It is a Puglia IGT for drinking soon, not for laying down. We would open it between 2026 and 2028.

Drinking window
2026 → 2028

Best in the years above; holds without falling over either side.

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

A young Puglia IGT for drinking soon, not for keeping. We would drink the 2025 between 2026 and 2028, while the ripe fruit is at its best.

Buy now or wait?
Buy now

£19.30 for a 75cl bottle of the 2025, at Vino.com, is the best price we track, and we have no signal of further discounting.

Sources & trust

Sources behind the Salsedine Primitivo page

Prices & stock

Read directly from each retailer’s public product page once a day. Last refresh: 27 Oct 2026, 02:49 BST. We do not hold stock and we do not accept payment for placement.

Confidence · High
Who owns this label

The name on the label is a brand of Cantine NAE, not the estate that grew the grapes. Salsedine is the Puglia line of Cantine NAE, a company based in Controguerra in Abruzzo. The wine is made near Taranto with small local partner producers, under Cantine NAE's own winemaking team, and bottled at the company's cellar. How we tell estate, shop and brand labels apart.

Confidence · High
Tasting notes

Based on the producer's published tasting notes.

Confidence · High
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, drawn from the disciplinare, public UK duty rates, and typical landed-cost benchmarks. Not a quote from the producer or a retailer.

Confidence · Medium
Drink window & cellar potential

Style guidance for this kind of wine at this price point. Treat it as advice, not a forecast for the bottle in your hand.

Confidence · Medium
Related

Salsedine Primitivo, Primitivo grape and Puglia IGT

Grapes
Primitivo
Denomination
Puglia IGT
Region
Puglia Region guide
Cuisine
Italian Cuisine 1 dishes paired

Common Questions

Cantine NAE makes it. Salsedine is the company's Puglia line, made with small local partner producers near Taranto under its own winemaking team. Cantine NAE is based in Controguerra in Abruzzo, where it bottles all its wines.

It is a full-bodied, soft red with wild berries, coffee and black pepper. The tannins are velvety, the alcohol is 15% and the finish lasts.

Rich dishes suit it best: lasagne, meat ragù, grilled steak or lamb, game and aged cheese. Sweet-glazed roast meats such as char siu also work. Avoid fiery chilli, which the 15% alcohol makes hotter.

Vino.com is the only UK shop selling it, so there is no price to compare. The 2025 costs £19.50 a bottle, and a little less each when you buy six or more.

Earlier vintages have. Luca Maroni scored the 2022 and the 2024 at 97 points on his 99-point scale. Those scores belong to those years, not to the 2025 now on sale.

Salsedine is Italian for the salt you breathe in sea air. Cantine NAE chose the name for the land near Taranto, where sea, sun and wind shape the landscape.

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