One of the newer Italian wineries, FEMAR VINI SRL, formed in the 1990s. They are in the Apulia region of Italy and will be attending VanWineFest 2024 to let us try their wines. They use an appassimento method where they dry the grapes. Other wineries pick the grapes and dry the grapes in bins/racks. FEMAR lets the grapes dry on the vine. Here is information about FEMAR from the winery, in their own words. Cin cin.
About Gran Appasso
This brand embraces a line of wines produced in different areas of the region of Apulia. Although the brand is born with the intent of representing Apulia in its most modern form, Gran Appasso Rosso Aged in Oak, “ottenuto da uve leggermente appassite”, recovers an ancient farming technique, probably prior to the first vinification and farming methods of Vitis Vinifera. It consists to leave the grape on the plant beyond the full maturation to let it loses water, concentrating sugar and acid in order to make the grape stronger in case of a longer storage.
This technique reaches Apulia, and in the area of Salento somebody understands that, pressing raisins, it gets a richer and more concentrated must, from which a more robust wine, durable and long-lived, very important features for trading at that time. For this reason this wine gets place in the tradition, and that is why, Femar produced Gran Appasso Rosso Aged in Oak: a full-bodied wine, satisfying and long-lived, which celebrates tradition of this great land.
This Article was originally published on My Wine Pal
