Our Gioia del Colle DOC Primitivo Riserva Fatalone 2021 was awarded 96 points on the guide “Doctor Wine: Guida Essenziale ai Vini d’Italia 2024.”
Doctor Wine 2025 Fatalone Primitivo Riserva 2021
The Doctor Wine: Guida Essenziale ai Vini d’Italia 2025 is curated by Daniele Cernilli, also known as “Doctor Wine”. In order to receive the Doctor Wine seal of approval, the wine must receive a tasting score of 96 and above.
Our organic Gioia del Colle DOC Primitivo Riserva Fatalone 2018 was recently featured in the prestigious and internationally renowned, Decanter Magazine, October 2021 edition. Our Riserva Fatalone 2018 was awarded a top score: 94 points.
Alessandra Piubello, a talented wine journalist, writes about “Top 20 Puglian Primitivo”. Only twenty wineries are featured, all of them representing excellent wines in our region. When describing the appellation Gioia del Colle DOC, Piubello states: “Here, the Primitivo expresses a particular style: elegant, fresh, savoury and cellarworthy.” In the article, our Primitivo Riserva Fatalone was described as “emblematic of its variety and terroir” and “astoundingly beautiful”.
Undoubtedly, we are honored to have been included in the list and specially proud to represent our territory and the Gioia del Colle DOC.
The wine guide ViniBuoni d’Italia 2021 awarded our Gioia del Colle DOC Primitivo Riserva Fatalone 2017 its prestigious Crown: the maximum recognition awarded by the guide to Excellent Wines. Our Puglia IGT Primitivo Fatalone “Teres” 2019 and Fatalone “Spinomarino” 2019 also received top scores.
ViniBuoni 2021 is a wine guide by the Touring Club Italiano edited by Mario Busso and Alessandro Scorsone. It reviews wine obtained from autochthonous grape varieties from all over Italy. Following this criteria, the number of wines it reviews remains limited. We are honored to have been selected in this wine guide for a number of years now.
Gioia del Colle DOC Primitivo Riserva Fatalone 2017
Score 4 STARS and Crown
Puglia IGT Primitivo Fatalone “Teres” 2019
Score 4 STARS
Puglia IGT Greco Fatalone “Bianco Spinomarino” 2019
Score 3 STARS
Our organic Fatalone Gioia del Colle DOC Primitivo Riserva 2015 was awarded with the Silver Medal at the Concours Mondial de Bruxelles 2019. We are very proud of this recognition as the validity and rigor of their assessment is recognized worldwide.
The Concours Mondial de Bruxelles, as its title suggests, is an international wine competition in which wines are assessed by an equally international tasting panel that includes oenologists, journalists, wine critics, researchers and buyers.
In November 2018 in New York City, we carried out the 30th anniversary historic vertical tasting of our Fatalone Gioia del Colle DOC Primitivo Riserva dating back to 1988. During the tasting, we surprised our guests with two bottles of Primitivo bottled by our grandparents, one from 1977 and the other from 1969 before the creation of our brand name, Fatalone.
This extraordinary event was made possible with the help of our importers in NYC and the talented Ms. Alice Feiring, an award-winning wine writer specializing in natural wines and creator of The Feiring Line. Alice recently wrote about our vertical tasting in her newsletter. The Feiring Line is an independent natural wine newsletter packed with only the best information on natural wines.
For the first time this year, we presented our Fatalone Organic Wines at Raw Wine 2018 in New York City. RAW WINE brings together “over 140 of the world’s best low-intervention organic / biodynamic/natural wine growers.” We introduced all of Fatalone wines: Gioia del Colle DOC Primitivo Riserva, Gioia del Colle DOC Primitivo, Puglia IGT Primitivo “Teres” e il nostro vino bianco, Puglia IGT Greco “Spinomarino”.
To be a part of Raw Wine, our wines had to pass a strict selection process. Thankfully, Raw Wine Fair’s entry requirements are in complete agreement with our own philosophy of producing organic wines, using only our own hand-picked grapes, low levels of sulphites, spontaneous fermentation and sustainable practices without sacrificing quality and taste.
We were particularly proud to have been the only winery representing Puglia in this wonderful event.
Our Gioia del Colle DOC Primitivo Riserva Fatalone 2008 was awarded “Le Corone Le Decido Io,” a CROWN awarded by wine enthusiasts and attendees during the final competition held in Buttrio in 2016 for the wine guide, ViniBuoni d’Italia 2017. We are especially proud of these type of awards as they are assigned by our first and most loyal supporters, the consumers.
Gioia del Colle D.O.C. Primitivo Riserva Fatalone 2007
Diploma di Gran Menzione
In a report dedicated to Puglia and particularly to Primitivo, on DECANTER Magazine, Fatalone is mentioned as the Primitivo PIONEER and our Fatalone Riserva achieves again the remarkable score of 93 points.
Gioia del Colle DOC Primitivo Riserva “Fatalone” 2006
Score 93/100