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Pasqua's Surani Costarossa is a ripe, soft Primitivo di Manduria. Over-ripened grapes and a year in small oak barrels give black plum, vanilla and velvety tannin at 14%. A Majestic exclusive in the UK: £16.50, or £12 in a mixed six.
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Pasqua leaves the grapes to over-ripen on the vine, ferments them for about 20 days and ages the wine a year in small oak barrels plus four months in bottle. The notes below say what that leaves in the glass.
Black plum and blackberry lead, with oak, vanilla and chocolate close behind. Cherry, leather and smoke come next. Pasqua's own sheet has it as a warm nose of red fruit and spice, and black fruit and vanilla are what the glass gives. The vanilla comes from a year in small oak barrels.
Blackberry
Cherry
Plum
Leather
Cinnamon
Liquorice
Vanilla
ChocolateFull and soft, with fruit ripe enough to taste almost sweet. Pasqua leaves the Primitivo grapes to over-ripen on the vine before picking, and there is a touch of residual sugar. The tannins are velvety rather than grippy and the alcohol is a warm 14%. It is the kind of red people come back to.
Long and warm, with cocoa, liquorice and a little dried fig from the over-ripe grapes. The oak shows most here, as a vanilla edge that softens the fruit.
An easy, ripe Primitivo for the price, and a well-liked everyday red. Drink the 2024 within about three years of release, with pizza, grilled meat or a mild curry. It is not a wine to cellar, and it is sold in the UK only by Majestic.
Majestic sells Costarossa as a UK exclusive at £16.50 a bottle, or £12 each in any mixed six, and has the 2024 vintage, under a natural cork. Vinello in Germany ships it for £10.58 a bottle before UK duty and VAT, which explains the gap.
Four scores out of ten, from how well it suits a beginner to how well it suits a weeknight. Costarossa scores highest as an introduction to Primitivo and for food, and well for value at £12 in a mixed six.
Soft tannin, ripe plum fruit, vanilla and a touch of sweetness: the style most new red-wine drinkers like first. It is the kind of red people buy again.
Ripe, soft and full: a natural partner for barbecue, tomato pasta, pizza, aged cheese and mild spice. Too big and too sweet-fruited for fish, salads and sharp dishes.
At Majestic it is £16.50 a bottle, or £12 each in a mixed six, for a DOC Primitivo with a year in oak. A well-liked everyday red. Vinello sells it from Germany at £10.58 before UK duty and VAT.
At £12 in a mixed six it is a weeknight red for pizza and pasta. At 14% alcohol it is a one-glass-with-dinner wine rather than a session bottle.
A DOC label and a natural cork give it enough polish for a casual dinner. A mass-market Majestic exclusive at £16.50 is not a gift or celebration wine.
Made from over-ripened grapes for early drinking, with a year in oak already done at the winery. Drink the 2024 by 2028; it will not improve in a cellar.
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.
Manduria's growers picked 2024 two weeks early after prolonged heat and drought. Their Consorzio reported 40% less fruit than 2023 but small, healthy bunches and higher alcohol than usual. Drink this vintage young, from 2025 to 2028.
Manduria picked 2024 two weeks early after a long, hot, dry summer. The growers' Consorzio reported a crop 40% smaller than 2023, with small, healthy bunches and higher alcohol than usual. This is a wine to drink young: 2025 to 2028.
Manduria picked 2024 two weeks early after a long, hot, dry summer. The growers' Consorzio reported a crop 40% smaller than 2023, with small, healthy bunches and higher alcohol than usual. This is a wine to drink young: 2025 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.
Primitivo di Manduria DOC covers 18 towns between Taranto and Brindisi, and its rules cap the crop at nine tonnes a hectare. Pasqua's sheet says Costarossa comes from the company's own vineyards around Manduria itself, on limestone and clay, at 14% alcohol.
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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Pasqua's sheet says the Primitivo is over-ripened on the vine before picking. Grapes that shrivel a little lose water and weight, so each vine gives fewer bottles, and the 2024 Manduria crop was already 40% down on 2023.
Costarossa ages 12 months in 225-litre oak barrels and a further four months in bottle before sale, according to Pasqua's sheet. Small barrels cost more per bottle than big casks or tanks, and sixteen months is stock sitting unsold.
At 14% alcohol UK duty is £3.22 a bottle at the February 2026 rate of £30.62 per litre of pure alcohol, and VAT on the £16.50 Majestic price is £2.75. About £6 of every full-price bottle goes to the Treasury.
Pasqua is a large producer and Majestic sells Costarossa as a UK exclusive, so volume keeps the mixed-six price at £12. Vinello in Germany has the same wine at £10.58 before UK duty and VAT.
Dishes that go with this wine
A full, soft 14% Primitivo with ripe plum fruit and a touch of sweetness wants food with fat, char or tomato. Pasqua suggests tasty pasta, grilled meats and seasoned cheeses, and beef, lamb and poultry fit too.
Char and meat fat soften what little grip this Primitivo has, and its ripe plum fruit meets smoky, sticky barbecue flavours head on. Grilled meats are on Pasqua's own list of matches.
Try with: Ribeye steak · Sirloin steak · BBQ ribs · Pulled pork · More pairings →
Tomato sauce needs a wine with enough ripe fruit to stand up to its sharpness, and this Costarossa has plenty. Its hint of sweetness also takes the edge off a spicy sausage or chilli pizza. It is ideal with pasta dishes.
Try with: Ragu alla bolognese · Lasagna · Pizza Diavola · Pizza Margherita · More pairings →
Salt in an aged cheese makes the plum and dried-fig fruit of an over-ripened Primitivo taste rounder and sweeter, and the soft tannin never clashes with the fat. Seasoned cheeses are on Pasqua's own list.
Try with: Caciocavallo farcito · Pecorino sardo e pan carasau · Frico · Cheese board · More pairings →
The cinnamon, pepper and liquorice in this wine echo the spices in a tandoori marinade, and its jammy fruit cools mild heat. Keep to mild or medium dishes; a fierce chilli is on the avoid list below.
Try with: Tandoori lamb chops · Lamb seekh kebab · Lamb bhuna · Lamb Kebab · More pairings →
A full, warm 14% red with soft tannin matches the weight of a braise without fighting it, and the wine's vanilla note sits well with slow-cooked, caramelised meat juices. Beef and lamb are its natural matches.
Try with: Lamb shank · Leg of lamb · Beef stew · Lamb chops · More pairings →
At 14% with oak and ripe, slightly sweet fruit, this wine turns raw fish metallic and makes a hot chilli burn hotter. Sharp, sour dishes make it taste flat and jammy. Save it for meat, pizza and cheese.
Skip with: Oysters · Sashimi · Green curry · Som Tam · Cheesecake · Pairing guide →
This is not a cellar wine. The grapes are over-ripened for early drinking and the wine has already had a year in oak and four months in bottle at Pasqua. Drink the 2024 by 2028 and store it on its side, away from heat, since it is sealed with a natural cork.
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.
Made from over-ripened grapes for early drinking, with a year in oak already done at the winery. Drink the 2024 by 2028; it will not improve in a cellar.
£16.50 for a 75cl bottle of the 2024, at Majestic, 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 out of 5 from 10,595 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 · MediumPasqua Vigneti e Cantine, the Verona wine house whose founding family came from Puglia. Surani is one of Pasqua's Puglia labels; its technical sheet puts the grapes in the company's own vineyards around the town of Manduria, on limestone and clay soils. In the UK the wine is a Majestic exclusive.
No. Masseria Surani is an estate at Manduria that has belonged to the Tommasi family of Verona for over a decade, and its Primitivo di Manduria is called Soranì. Costarossa is sold under Pasqua's Surani label. Both come from Manduria, but they are different wines from different companies.
Ripe black plum and blackberry, vanilla and chocolate from a year in small oak barrels, then cherry, leather and a little spice, with soft, velvety tannin at 14%. It tastes fuller and sweeter-fruited than most Italian reds because the grapes are left to over-ripen on the vine before picking.
No, but it is not bone dry either. It is semi-dry, with about 8 to 11 grams of sugar a litre, so it tastes ripe and rounded rather than sweet. That sugar is a normal result of the over-ripened grapes that give Primitivo di Manduria its style. It is nowhere near a dessert wine.
£16.50 a bottle at Majestic, which sells it exclusively in the UK, or £12 a bottle when you buy any six wines. Majestic has the 2024 vintage. No other UK shop we track carries it.
Barbecued or grilled meat, tomato pasta and pizza, aged cheese and mildly spiced lamb. Pasqua suggests tasty pasta, grilled meats and seasoned cheeses, and beef, lamb and poultry fit too. Avoid raw fish, sour salads and fierce chilli.
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