Very fresh nose, it is an orange wine that recalls spring herbs and oriental spices; on the palate, the salinity blends with the aftertaste of mandarin and orange.
Producer Valentina Passalacqua
Origin Puglia, Italy
Grapes Falanghina
Vintage NV
Alcohol 11% ABV
Style Medium body macerated white
Bottle size 1000ml
Winemaking Manual harvest, destemmed grapes, macerated on the skins for 5 days, in open vats, with manual cap breaking. Fermented with indigenous yeast and matured in stainless steel.
Notes Biodynamic, Natural, Organic, Unfiltered and unfined
Based in Apricena, Gargano National Park - the first mining centre in the south, where limestone is the distinctive element of the terroir. Thanks to the close relationship with her land, Valentina Passalacqua has adopted an organic agronomic approach from the beginning and, following a long period of observation and study, has developed a deep knowledge of the terroir.
Valentina, after several years of production, felt the need to isolate some of the plots in their vineyards characterized by exclusively Kimmeridgian calcareous soil. Thus, the Calcarius project was born: terroir-driven, mineral wines, tense and uncompromising. Indigenous varieties are bred on the farm which is the result of a historical-cultural contamination that has its roots in Magna Graecia: Nero di Troia, Bombino, Greco, Falanghina, Negroamaro and Aleatico above all. The approach is wisely non-interventionist.
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