Selvarossa Riserva – 2019

Due Palme Selvarossa Riserva - a Salice Salentino Rosso DOP

The Due Palme Selvarossa Riserva 2019 is a velvety, elegant red wine cuvée made from the Negroamaro and Malvasia Nera grape varieties. For 30 years, the Selvarossa Riserva has been the flagship wine of Cantine Due Palme, having been awarded 3 Glasses in the Gambero Rosso multiple times, including for the current vintage.

On the nose, this dense, almost black-red wine reveals a complex bouquet with notes of wild berries, intense cherry aromas, plum jam, dried dates, slight hints of spice, liquorice, and dark chocolate, as well as fine, sweet notes of tobacco. The Selvarossa is characterized equally by elegance and softness, density and power. A wine that demonstrates like no other what high wine quality can emerge from one of Italy's largest cooperatives. And all at a sensational price.

Its perfectly structured body is powerful and warm, robust and spicy. On the palate, it exhibits opulence, silkiness, and harmony; soft tannins and perfectly integrated acidity lead into an endlessly long finish. The Selvarossa Riserva is a wine with great structure and a good balance between ripe fruit and a silky tannin structure. A complex red wine that is easy to drink, pairing just as well with grilled meat as it does with braised vegetables, a slice of pizza, an antipasti platter, or aged cheeses, and is also perfect for pure wine enjoyment.

Due Palme – 3 Glasses in the Gambero Rosso

The Selvarossa Riserva has always been the hallmark of Cantine Due Palme – only the most carefully selected grapes are considered for it. The Selvarossa Riserva, a cuvée of Negroamaro and Malvasia Nera, epitomizes the Salento region par excellence and reflects the Mediterranean atmosphere with all its aromas and warmth.

Negroamaro is a vine that has been cultivated in Salento for a good 3,000 years. It is very dark, almost black, and possesses a distinctively tart and spicy taste. The name traces back to the term "niuro maru." Malvasia Nera impresses with its elegance and its soft, pleasant fruitiness. Both grape varieties grow in the so-called Alberello training system, meaning as individual bushes without trellises or wire frames.

The perfectly formed, well-ripened grapes are harvested by hand into crates and express the terroir—red soil, clay, and graphite—in the best possible way. A portion of the grapes is slowly dried to emphasize the body and structure of the wine. Afterward, the wine matures for six months in French oak barrels and for a few months in the bottle before it goes on sale. A wine with enormous potential that lives up to all its awards and top ratings.

Selvarossa Riserva – a wine and its values

• Origin: Wine from Italy
• Region: Apulia
• Appellation: Salice Salentino DOP
• Grape varieties: 90% Negroamaro, 10% Malvasia Nera
• 14.5% vol. alcohol
• 10.5g/l residual sugar
• 5.95g/l acidity