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“I dare you to find a better southern Italian wine for this price”

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2021 Lupo Meraviglia Tre di Tre Puglia Rosso 750 ml

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An Expensive Bottle by Pugliese Standards

If you were going to design an ideal climate in Italy for growing bold and powerful red wines, you’d end up with something a lot like Puglia.

The heel of the boot enjoys the sunshine you’d expect for such a southerly latitude, with rocky soils to challenge the vines and plentiful ocean breezes to ensure a long growing season. Lupo Meraviglia’s 2021 Tre di Tre is one of the top bottles in the region, and it comes with a ridiculously low price tag. It’s bold and dark-fruited, juicy and ripe, enhanced by tiny aromatic touches of florals and tobacco to keep everything in check. 

As our VP of Wine, Eduado Dingler, said when he poured it for our judging panel, “I dare you to find a better southern Italian wine for this price.”

Puglia grows an array of intense red grapes: Primitivo, which is nearly identical genetically to Zinfandel; Negro Amaro, named for its dark pigment; and powerful Aglianico, native to the area around Naples but also built to thrive in the heat of the Salento peninsula.

Meraviglia uses a “salasso” technique—the French call it saignée—to bleed off 20–30% of the liquid early in the winemaking process. It’s costly to discard this, but doing so increases the skin-to-juice ratio, providing deeper color and fruit, making for a more powerful, intense wine.

This is the perfect bottle to have on hand for summer and fall. It’s dynamite with anything meaty and grilled, and inexpensive enough to pour for the backyard-barbecue crowd. We kicked off cookout season by pouring it with smoked chicken and garlic-butter crowned burgers, but it will be a darling with a veggie tagine when fall rolls around.