The Vinuva Primitivo is veritable winter in a glass, starting with an inviting deep, rich purple colour and super-ripe fruits of the forest and liquorice aromas. It’s full-bodied, with a luscious big fruit-driven palate, but then cleans up with crunchy acidity and chalky gripping tannins. A definite food wine, optional scarf wine!

Puglia, in the deep south of Italy (the 'heel' of the boot') is home to a great variety of relatively lesser-known grape varieties that produce a satisfying range of incredible value and characterful wines. Overshadowed by many of their more famous wine regions, it is nonetheless a great place to discover comforting reds and the odd salty white that make for great drinking. Vinuva is a range of excellent value, certified organic wines from regions in southern Italy, made under the auspices of the Enoitaly group. Quintessentially Puglia in a bottle, the Vinuva Primitivo is from Puglia’s Salento region, a peninsula located right on the heel of Italy’s boot. Vinuva says their wines need little introduction, as ‘once they have reached the palate, they have said everything about themselves!’ Primitivo, also known as Zinfandel, is a big bear-hug of a wine: it’s a dark skinned grape, producing robust, rustic reds that are high in tannin and acidity, and have buckets of ripe, rich berry and cherry fruits.