{"id":11116,"date":"2025-06-17T12:33:07","date_gmt":"2025-06-17T10:33:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cantele.it\/prodotti\/amativo\/"},"modified":"2026-10-13T11:56:51","modified_gmt":"2026-10-13T09:56:51","slug":"amativo","status":"publish","type":"prodotti","link":"https:\/\/www.cantele.it\/en\/prodotti\/amativo\/","title":{"rendered":"Amativo"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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Amativo is a meeting. One of those encounters that shouldn\u2019t work but end up writing unforgettable stories. Nearly twenty-five years ago, it was born from an intuition, a stubborn desire, an idea that turned into obsession. Augusto Cantele imagined it, at a time when no one thought of blending two grapes so far apart. <\/p>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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Negroamaro and Primitivo: one austere, the other exuberant. Two different souls, two different rhythms, two ripening cycles that seem almost to mock anyone trying to follow them. Primitivo is harvested at the end of August, when the light is still full, the heat still fierce, and the wind\u2014if it comes at all\u2014only stirs the thirsty vines. Negroamaro waits until well into September, when the sun begins to bend toward autumn and time itself seems to slow down. \n\n<\/p>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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It wasn\u2019t easy, bringing together such distinct personalities. Nor was it obvious that they could ever speak the same language. But great wines, ike great stories, are built on the balance of opposites, on harmonies born of contrast. Because beauty is never found in what\u2019s obvious, but in the meeting of forces that hold each other in tension. \n\n<\/p>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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Amativo takes shape in the cellar like a story writing itself, one chapter at a time. Primitivo opens the scene, vinified first, offering its richness of ripe fruit, its generous roundness, its enveloping warmth. Then comes the waiting. And within that wait, the intuition: Gianni Cantele watches, tastes, imagines. Only once the Primitivo has said all it needs to say, does the Negroamaro arrive. But it\u2019s not added casually. It\u2019s not a mathematical formula. It\u2019s a choice. A balance to be found. \n\n<\/p>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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The result is a wine that thrives onThe result is a wine that thrives on contrasts. Primitivo brings its jammy sweetness, its broad volume, its softness. Negroamaro responds with firmer tannins, spicy notes, a bitter edge at the finish, not to close the sip, but to push it further. Together, they create a story that resists easy compromises. A wine to be sipped slowly, like a tale worth telling. <\/p>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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