from the southern slopes of Mount Vesuvius and its volcanic soil comes this delicious and complex orange wine. Sourced from 2 plots totaling just 1.4 hectares: Monaco (25 year old vines) in the town of Trecase and Campanariello (40 year old vines) in Boscotrecase. Altitude ranges from 30-280m.
only 200 cases produced
nutty, Sherry-esque nose, toasted orange peel, ash, volcanic terroir,
region: Campania, Italy
varietal: 80% Caprettone, 15% Falanghina, 5% Greco.
style: orange
farming/cellar: practicing organic, a portion of the Caprettone was vinified separately and saw 48 hrs skin contact, rest of fruit co-fermented without any skin contact, matured 12 months in steel, aged 2 years in bottle in wine's cellar before release, malo occurred, minimal added so2 only at end of fermentation and at bottling
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