For me, a modern wine. The edges are polished, the balance - one could say - almost ideal. In terms of taste, it is a gastro wine: binding, clear and capable of winning over the majority. I also drank it in the restaurant. It caught my eye on the menu of "Divino". "Divino" belongs to "Volg", the largest wine press in Switzerland. Or, as they say: "Divino" is the partner of "Volg", the wine shop in addition, so to speak, with a wide range - also from wine regions abroad. The "Divino" wine list is exemplary, almost like a model menu in a restaurant - comprehensible and binding, with all the necessary information. I appreciate this where there is no sommelier to advise you, and that is - at least in the average restaurant in Switzerland - almost always the case. So you have to rely on your own knowledge and the information on the drinks menu. But it's hard to believe all the things that are offered, promised, fibbed and generalised. Most of the time, not even the vintage is correct. I praise the "Divino" menu, even though I dislike the uniform trend. I love the individual, the personal, the fine coordination of cuisine and drinks, I love the handwriting of the landlady, the landlord, where it is legible. But this is less and less the case, especially not in medium-sized and smaller establishments.
So on the "Divino" menu, this Salento Rosso caught my eye, probably because of the 
assemblage: 50% Negroamaro, 50% Primitivo - aged in barriques. I was particularly interested in the combination of the two grape varieties. Primitivo (or Zinfandel) usually has a high alcohol content, always at the upper limit, hardly ever below 15% vol. Negroamaro, the very fruity grape variety from the southernmost part of Italy, is more of a local speciality, which until now has hardly been "majority wine". So something for extravagant wine drinkers. No, on the contrary: so much has been honed, perhaps also so well selected and worked with regard to terroir, plant density, reduction, in any case the wine has found - as I said - an unbelievably beautiful balance. Even the wood has integrated so well that it hardly registers specifically. A powerful wine that has something soft, almost romantic about it. After all, for a gastro wine rather the exception, it is already more than five years old.
Thanks to the combination of the two grape varieties, it also falls out of the pattern of many wines that are often praised in restaurants as typical, particularly suitable, digestible, sometimes even delicious. It is - and here I am already happy - a wine that can arouse my interest, even though the edges have been polished off. There remain some typical aromas like cherries, plums, chocolate, eucalyptus, herbs and tobacco - and they are not simply conjured up. They are really in the glass and can be detected without a long search.