Primitivo
History
Red grape variety, whose name derives from the early ripening of the plant in all its stages, from germination to flowering period, maturation dall'invaiatura to the berry.
Zinfandel / Primitivo
Zinfandel was for many years somewhat of a mystery grape, as far as its origins are concerned.
Primitivo, Negroamaro and Uva di Troia are just three of the grapes which have contributed to the rebirth of Apulian enology, a success made of red wines and a lot of sun ...
PRIMITIVO DI GIOIA
A minor red-wine grape grown primarily in the Apulia region of southern Italy. Its dried grapes are used to make a robust, portlike red wine.
Primitivo (pree-mee-tee'-voh)
A red wine grape found in Italy. It was thought for some time that this was the origin of the Zinfandel grape of California.
Primitivo is an Italian grape, found particularly in Apulia, which used to be thought to be the same grape as Zinfandel in the USA.
Post-Primitivo
Last night after enjoying two glasses of Cantele Primitivo 2002, I (synthetically) corked it back up and put it in the fridge.
Primitivo is primarily grown in Puglia in southern Italy where the warm growing conditions creates heavy, high alcohol wines once used mainly for blending.
PRIMITIVO (DI GIOIA): Minor variety mainly confined to Apulia in southern Italy where it is used to produce a heavy, robust portlike red wine made from raisined grapes.
The DOCs of Castel del Monte, Salice Salentino, Copertino and Primitivo di Manduria have the best reputation. There is little wine of interest on Sardinia, but Sicily is an Italian wine region on the up.
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Zinfandel grapes on the vine
Zinfandel, in Europe known as Primitivo and in Croatia as Crljenak Kaštelanski, is a red-skinned wine grape.
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While its origins are not clear it has been positively identified, via DNA analysis at UC Davis (California), as the Primitivo (di Gioia), a variety grown in Apulia, southern Italy.
The origins of this tremendously versatile and popular grape are not known for certain, although it is thought to have come from Southern Italy as a cousin of Primitivo.
ZINFANDEL: While the origins are not clear it has been tentatively identified as the Primitivo (di Gioia), a grape species common to southern Italy.
It is probable that Zinfandel and Primitivo are in fact two clones of the same grape variety and Plavac Veliki a variety derived from Zinfandel and Dobricic and known also as Crljenak.
A super-early harvest followed, with early-ripening varieties like Chardonnay, Pinot Bianco and Primitivo being picked in July rather than August, while the bulk of the Sangiovese was harvested a fortnight early, during the second week of September.
Declared the American wine grape because it reaches its highest level in California, it's now been shown to be the same as the Southern Italian Primitivo, and it's thought that both may go back to an earlier Balkan progenitor.
Zinfandel has recently been established as being identical to the Italian grape Primitivo. Zinfandel has a mouth-filling, thick berryness that is sometimes described as being jammy or chewy.
Finally, she has determined that Zinfandel and the Italian varietal Primitivo are different clones of the same variety. It has long been suspected that the origins of Zinfandel would be found around the Adriatic sea.
 See also: Wine, Grape, Red, Italy, White
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