Agnanum 'Sabbia Vulcanica' Vino Rosso 2022

Agnanum 'Sabbia Vulcanica' Vino Rosso 2022Ungrafted Piedirosso planted on volcanic sand, or 'sabbia vulcanica' in Italian. A lighter to medium bodied red with lots of local character and elegance, rustic but easy enough to be versatile with anything from weeknight pasta to Sunday roast chicken. This is a lot of wine for the price. Raffaelle Moccia is one of the few who still tend vines on the steep terraces of Campi Flegrei west of Naples. Vines have been here since the Romans but nowadays

Yet where many versions of this grape get overly extracted and are fatiguing

and feral energy is intensely satisfying

Nevado is a bottling of unfortified Palido from the Gomez Nevado estate

I had to include this

chiefly by the fact that they were first to plant and make wines from Tannat

don't miss it when you see it

with organic certification

all done in steel tank

it is unmistakably Aglianico

Press 4 Red • November 2023 Direct Press Selection

including famed Vouvray producer Domaine Huet

made on a much smaller-scale in Dutchess County