Aglianico Vigna Quatro Confini 2020
75cl
Benito Ferrara
£25.50
Greco di Tufo 'Vigna Cicogna' 2021
Benito Ferrara
Benito Ferrara is one of Italy’s best white wine producers. Ferrara’s most famous wine, the Greco di Tufo Vigna Cicogna, is an Italian icon. Grapes are harvested and then transferred into temperature-controlled steel tanks until fermentation is complete.
Ageing also occurs in steel tanks. Usually, the wine remains seven months on its lees with regular batonnage and does not undergo malolactic transformation. This explains Vigna Cicogna’s often bright apple-y character with expressive acidity and great minerality. The vineyard’s cute name (Cicogna is stork in English, so Vigna Cicogna is the “vineyard of the storks”) has a humorous origin. The Sabato river runs near the village of Tufo where the estate is located, and herons used to live there. One day after a flood many decades ago, the herons moved into the vineyard and, finding it to their liking, nested there.
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13.5%
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Robert Parker 91 Points, Decanter 92 Points
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75cl
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91 Points Robert Parker
The 2021 Greco di Tufo Vigna Cicogna (with 26,000 bottles made) opens to a golden straw color with orchard fruit aromas that give the wine a softly textured personality and good length. Those primary tones of apricot and peach are framed by delicate hints of honey, wild sage and crushed stone.
92 Points Decanter
The strength of the Greco grape allied to the firmness of the Irpinia subregion are tamed here by the graceful handling of the Benito Ferrara estate. The wine is aged for seven months on the lees. Pale straw in the glass, it exhibits a fine tomato leaf aroma, with ripe apricot and papaya fruit flavours at the core enhanced by white pepper and seaweed minerality. The attack is full of sucrosity yet it's bone–dry, full and mellow, with a tight, precise finish sustained by zesty acidity and an almost salty aftertaste.
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Campania
Campania is the ‘shin’ of Italy’s boot, with Naples as its capital. Campania’s success owes much to the varied climates and terroirs that host around 100,000 acres (46,800ha) of vines. This region, close to the sea, enjoys an abundance of sunshine with dry and hot summers and mild winters; all these components make it perfect for growing vines.
The region has strong historical links to wine and vine, dating back to the 12th century BC, and is one of Italy's very oldest wine regions. The area is also famous for producing Falerno (Falernum), one of the most ancient wines in Italy.
Viticulture is in its element thanks to an abundance of sunshine, dry hot summers, mild winters, a long growing season and volcanic soil.
Wine Appellations:
Campania has four DOCG appellations for the ancient wines of Taurasi, Fiano di Avellino, Falerno del Massico and Greco di Tufo. Taurasi is the region’s most prolific wine made from the Aglianico grape, whose name is derived from "Hellenic" as the grape was first introduced by the Greeks. The region has also a regional IGT for Campania, under which many expressive red, white and rosé wines are made from local grapes. About 75% of Campania’s production is now DOCG, DOC and IGT wines.
IGT: Campania; Colli di Salerno
DOC: Capri; Ischia; Falanghina del Sannio; Irpinia
DOCG: Greco di Tufo; Fiano di Avellino; Taurasi; Aglianico del Taburno
Indigenous Grapes varieties
White: Biancolella; Greco, Fiano; Falanghina
Red: Aglianico; Piedirosso
Grape Varieties
Its most important red variety is arguably Aglianico. Also vital to Campania's vineyards are the white-wine varieties Fiano and Greco, which are championed by the region's most respected white wines, Fiano di Avellino and Greco di Tufo. Another light-skinned grape of interest here is Falanghina, which forms the backbone of Falerno del Massico and Galluccio wines.
