Fatalone

Vine
Primitivo – The dark berry autoctonous
In the XVIII cent. Benedictine monks introduced new vines in Apulia.
In Gioia del Colle the monks found the most favourable conditions for viticulture.
PRIMATIVO, original name of the Primitivo in Gioia del Colle, which we mention in its original idiom U'PR'MATI'VE, was selected at the end of the 1700 by the chief-priest of Gioia del Colle, Don Francesco Filippo Indellicati, who named it Primativo®, cause its early ripening, in comparison with the other red grapes in the country of Gioia.
Primitivo was the first vine species to cross the Atlantic and reach California , where it became known with the name Zinfandel.
Wine experts like Garoglio, Bruni, Veronelli and Hugh Johnson praised the qualities of this grape.
Froio wrote about it:
"It is the main culture in Gioia del Colle and used to make wine;
of excellent taste if pure, it is not so perfect if grown elsewhere."
Even poets have shown interest for it: A. Morelli recites:
And the early Primitivo
from Gioia del Colle
makes our blood as restless
as quick silver.

Medium vigour vine with stout trunk, has intense green leaves pentagon-shaped with the back lobes laying one upon the other. The branches are rough streaky and grape-juice coloured. The budding starts at the end of April. The thick short peduncle hold a long cone-frustum-shaped bunch with 1 or 2 heads and must-coloured stalk. The dark blue spheroid berries are pulpy and the very sweet juice is rose-coloured with purple tints.
Primitivo vine is particular because its secondary budding is very fruitful, infact it is the only vine all over the Mediterranean area to supply a secondary vintage: the " racemi" which are less full-bodied but much more sweet-smelling fruits.
Primitivo's must is intense ruby red coloured, full in violet hues as like as its froth.

For all the love we showed him, "The Primitivo" dedicated a poem to us: Gioia's "Primitivo".


Greco – The white berry autoctonous
Origins of this noble Aminean grape date back to ancient time.
It reached our peninsula with the help of the Amineans from Greece, immediately after the Trojan War (XIII b. C.). Their first settlement was in Apulia, where they started the growing of Greco.
Medium vigour vine with a good production has leaves medium-sized and pentagon-shaped.
Middle-little bunch cone-frustum-shaped with one of two heads more developed and full of little spheroid yellowish berries.
Its must is very sweet-smelling.