Giustini. Fiano 'Avoglia' Size:6 bottle

Giustini. Fiano 'Avoglia' Size:6 bottleSalento IGT Grape: Fiano A lovely vintage that gave a bright tasting, crisp, dry white wine. Mango and fig with a touch of salt and a squeeze of lime. Disarmingly easy drinking. 12% Giustini producer page Fiano is one of Italys most ancient and greatest white grapes. The Romans called Fiano Latino, however it fell from grace and by the 1960s was all but extinct and were it not for Antonio Mastroberardino it may have disappeared altogether. Today it is

The grapes are hand-picked and carried the negligible distance in small grates to the cellar where they are destemmed and sorted before crushing and fermentation with selected yeasts in temperature controlled steel tanks for 3 weeks

these are carried in shallow buckets to the drying room in the attic where they are laid out on wooden slatted crates

Soave 'Terrelunghe'

Basilicata

the resulting wine is magnificent and slightly unusual: typical mouth-filling tangerine and lemon is joined by greengage fruit

has been cut out

a complex and generous wine that is a perfect lush (very very drinkable)

the vines are spur trained and great attention is paid to canopy management and airflow as ripeness is not guaranteed at this altitude

the newly opened shoots were still protected by the cottony tissue of the bud and were not damaged by the frost

The wine is aged in tank over the winter

2024 was a year that winter forgot

citrus-fresh