Greco di Tufo Giallo d'Arles 2022 95+WA
Quintodecimo

95+/100 Parker's Wine Advocate, Monica Larner (2021 vintage)
"The Greco grape is naturally rich in pigments, and when it reaches full maturity, the grape takes on a golden color with amber highlights. That is the inspiration behind the wine's name, which evokes the yellow color so adored by painter Vincent van Gogh in Arles, France. The 2021 Greco di Tufo Giallo d'Arles is smooth, elegant and representative of the enormous white-wine potential found in Campania. The bouquet offers orchard fruit, white rainier cherries and a terpenic note that Luigi Moio goes to great lengths to preserve. There is also a pronounced floral tone of jasmine or tuberose that he says is specific to this vintage. This is an exhilarating wine."

Our Tasting Note: Med+ lemon yellow verging into gold in color. Med+/pronounced nose and palate. Summer peach, nectarines, quince, meyer lemon curd, with a good mineral core, a tang of saline, something you don't see in Greco too much. Med+ density is striking, but fresh, linear in a dense way. Med acidity. Long, persistent finish, the longest of the 3 (it should).

Grape: Greco di Tufo 100%
Year of vineyard planting: 2001
Altitude: 450 meters
Exposure: Southwest
Soil: Clayey-calcareous
Vineyard: Production area Tufo (Giallo d’Arles vineyard, district of Santa Lucia). Planted 2001.
Viticulture: Training system horizontal vertical trellis with Guyot training system. Yield 1.2 kg/vine. Harvest period Second ten days of October. Manually picked in 15 kg boxes.
Winemaking: After a long pressing of the whole grapes, the free-run must, rigorously protected from oxygen, is separated from the pressed must and clarified by natural settling. The fermentation takes place in stainless steel tanks (70%) and in new oak barrels (30%).
Aging: The wines are aged for 8 months on fine lees, periodically resuspended.