2016 Palamá Primitivo

Palamà is a small estate in a sea of gigantic producers–a speck of an island on the Salento Peninsula–and they would have it no other way. With perhaps the lowest yields in the entire appellation, Palamà is committed to the highest quality “everyday” wines that can be produced, without the fuss of new oak, just ripe, fresh, powerful fruit. His Primitivo is a delight; lush, yet bright and approachable, with notes of dark anise, cedar, and blackberry confit.
50 yo vines with some 60 feet of roots diving down into the Salento’s terra rossa lend this wine far more than southern climate fruit – dusty red brick and sweet tobacco show through the dark plum.
Because the wine is 13.5%, not higher, and unoaked, we get a real sense of place and complexity for the money.