Are you ready for the next Vinitaly?
The 56th edition of Vinitaly will be held in Verona from 14 to 17 April. We will meet, as usual, in HALL 6 – STAND B4!
We are pleased to inform you that on the occasion of Vinitaly we will participate in the 13th edition of OperaWine’s wine tasting “Finest Italian Wines“, born in 2012 from the collaboration of Veronafiere and Vinitaly with the prestigious American magazine Wine Spectator. The exclusive event offers specialized operators from all over the world the chance to know the best Italian wines, according to the ranking drawn up annually by the experts of Wine Spectator.
Here, on April 13, we will participate in the TOP 100 Italian Producers with our Taurasi Fatica Contadina Docg 2015, a red wine for long aging, born from 100% Aglianico grapes, it is characterized by its elegance, ripe fruity and soft tannins.
The Wine Spectator Finest Italian Wines Selection has the ability to tell the great diversity of Italian wine, both looking at tradition and at the new frontiers of enology. A showcase of international scope, which stages the best Italian wines with an orientation to export to major foreign markets.
Taurasi Fatica Contadina DOCG
is made from Aglianico grapes in the vineyard owned by Lapio and Montemiletto (AV), about 600-550 meters above sea level, on clay-limestone soils, with long and steep rows – an area whose morphology makes the work long and not easy during the year. Hence, the name “FATICA CONTADINA” which recalls the difficulty of working the land in the high hills. The grapes are harvested in the second decade of October and taken to the cellar, where the maceration will be about 15 days, followed by alcoholic and malolactic fermentation; the wine matures, so, in small French oak barrels for 24 and continues its evolution in Slavonian barrels of 35 HL, for another 12 months, and ages in bottle for a minimum of 36 months.
History pills
Aglianico, an ancient vine, brought to Irpinia by the Greeks in the 7th-6th century B.C. tells of a wine symbol of Iprinia, one of the protagonist of the so-called “Wine Railway” in the 30s, when trains full of aglianico reached the main wine districts of the world. In 1950, its distribution stopped after the phylloxera diffusion, but, subsequently, the Taurasi resumed its run and, in 1968, it lived one of its greatest expressions thanks to the Mastroberardino family. Since then, he has come a long way, obtaining the DOC in 1970. Then, with the new stylistic and interpretative models, such as the use of barriques or large Slavonian oak barrels, Taurasi exploded, earning the recognition of the DOCG in 1993.