di Marzo. Greco di Tufo

Greco di Tufo DOCG
Grape: Greco

2022
Lime, just a touch of pickled lemon, Kambasha and sage, really intriguing aromas. Statuesque, fine, firm and harmonious, a wine with presence and vigour. 13.5%
20,000 bottles made
last few cases of the 2022

2023
A wine with clarity and focus, intense lime, salt, sweet wild herb, and wet stone flavours.  
13%

Cantine di Marzo producer page.

A magnificent original born in 1647 when, in a move to escape a plague sweeping through Naples, Ferrante’s descendants decamped to Tufo, travelling with their treasured Greco vines.  The effect of the sulphur-rich, volcanic soils on the vines was remarkable and an icon was born.  Like all classics, it has evolved as tastes, technologies and the climate have changed.  In this latest incarnation, winemaker Vincenzo Mercurio has fine-tuned the style and brought a new level of confidence to the wine.  The 2023 growing season will be scarred onto memory by a crippling attack of mildew that took half the crop, fortunately the surviving fruit turned out to be excellent. 
The Greco was hand-picked in the middle of October, de-stemmed and gently pressed.  Fermentation is with selected yeasts, underground in small temperature-controlled steel tanks.  The wine remains on the lees for six months where it goes through a partial malolactic conversion.