Black Friday – Il Papavero Upgrade Pack

In this special ‘upgrade’ pack enjoy 9 bottles of the great original poppy red and visit the dark side of the poppy, with 3 bottles of sumptuous Il Papavero Primitivo (aka the Black poppy!). For a special price of $17.99 a bottle. The name Il Papavero (the poppy) is behind a bestselling range of wines of all shades including the original red that’s been a chart-topping favourite for two decades, offering incomparable versatility. To achieve this, 5th-generation maestro Scipione Giuliani selects the best grapes from top-performing regions each year – Sangiovese from the Marches, Montepulciano from Abruzzo, Negroamaro and Nero d’Avola from Puglia – an ideal combination, earning it the nickname of 'Italy in a bottle'. One UK wine critic Richard Neill once wrote, "If all table wines tasted this good, no one would leave the table!” Your ‘upgrade wine’, the Primitivo is the dark side of the poppy – made purely from a plot of 50-year-old vines, yielding very concentrated flavour. Scipione discovered the plot of vines and insisted that this Primitivo be bottled solo. He then aged the super-rich red in barrel a few months, adding a mellow roundness and complexity for a weighty red, best served with roast meats and hearty dishes.