From the vineyards around the town of Manduria in Puglia come the highest quality Primitivo wines, it is also historically considered the original cultivation area of this grape variety originally from Dalmatia. That is why Orlando Nugnes has also referred to the wine as "animus", i.e. the soul, because the top quality of the grapes is the soul of every good wine. The Primitivo is approximately
12 months in new French oak barriques.