Poggio Anima
Lilith 2021
According to Hebrew texts, Lilith was the first wife of Adam. She was banished from the Garden of Eden when she refused to make herself subservient to Adam’s sexual requests. When she was cast out of the Garden, she was made into a demon, and Adam was given a second wife, Eve, who was fashioned from his rib to ensure her obedience to her man. Where Adam was created from dust, Lilith was created from filth and sediment.
Primitivo refuses to be submissive to the oenology that it is the same grape as its close relative Zinfandel. The vineyard is located in San Pietro in the province of Taranto toward the top of the inner portion of the Puglian heel. Here the proximity to the sea is everything with the winds acting as an air conditioner maintaining cooler afternoon highs than areas to the north. The area is primarily planted to Negroamaro but because of the extremely poor fertility in the soil select rows of Primitivo ripen well here. The grapes were destemmed and fermentated without crushing in stainless tanks and a small percentage sees rotofermentation to soften the ‘sweet & sour’ notes often seen with Primitivo. After the primary ferment, an additional maceration of 24 days brought more structure after which it was pressed off the skins and aged for another three months in stainless steel. It was bottled with a light fining and filtration and sulfur addition.
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