'A Vita Calabria "Il Rosso" 2022

'A Vita Calabria "Il Rosso" 2022Legend holds that wines from DOC Cir were once served to ancient Olympic champions, but the small Calabrian town is better known today for its connections to the 'Ndrangheta crime group than for viticulture. 'A Vita, helmed by Calabrian local Francesco de Franco, is one of a small cohort of natural producers working to revive the areas winemaking traditions. Francesco was inspired after moving north for university, where he met his wife, Laura, a

and intelligent person and he puts all these qualities into his vines and wines

strawberry

known the ancestral method

Jonathan Kemp

Textura organically farms 22 hectares of native Portuguese varieties plated on granitic soils at high elevations

This Furmint comes from the vineyard site called Holdvölgy and spends 7 mos in used Hungarian oak and is fermented using native yeasts

crayon wax

On the palate I tasted a mix of black cherry

along with a need for exploration of possibility

(Previous vintages were carbonic ferments

old-fashioned pleasure of this thirst-quenching heart-warmer

but supremely refreshing with lower acidity