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Buy Online98/100 Luca Maroni – Leading Italian Wine Critic
The Doppio Passo brand is a tribute to Carlo and Maria Botter who, together, founded the company in 1928 Primitivo arrived in Puglia in the C18th via the Dalmatian coast of Croatia. In the early C19th, it was introduced to the United States, under the name Zinfandel earning a reputation as the American 'national grape'. It is a dark, thick-skinned variety known for producing inky, intensely flavoured wines high in flavour.
In Puglia’s hot, sunny Mediterranean climate and mixed sandy, loamy, red volcanic soils ripe grapes ripen fully and are hand harvested. The grapes are destemmed before carrying out the pre-fermentation maceration at 12-14 °C, followed by fermentation, with maceration lasting 15-20 days at a controlled temperature (25-27°C) to extract colour, body and ripe tannin structure. After pressing, the wine is aged 9 months in barrel and for further 12 months in bottle.
his is a powerful, smooth, fruit-saturated wine with intense berry flavours and rich, rounded tannins that goes very well with grilled red meats, game and aged cheeses.
90/100 Cameron Douglas MS, November 2025 (2021 Vintage)
"A Primitivo grape (similar to Zinfandel) delivers the fruit for this expression with a core frame of dark spices laden red berry fruits. From thoughts of Doris plums and blueberry then Christmas pudding the bouquet and palate deliver of structure and detail. A dry wine with layers of clove, licorice and vanilla then five spice weaves through core fruit flavours with a firm structure. Tannins and acidity are definitive yet well balanced, dusty and fine, crisp and ready."
