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Fontanavecchia - Falanghina Taberno del Sannio 2022 (750ml)

 
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Producer Fontanavecchia
Country Italy
Region Campania
Varietal Falanghina
Vintage 2022
Sku 03394
Size 750ml

Like so many of you, we just love this expressive and salty/stony white wine from Libero Rillo and the rolling hills of Sannio in Campania.  As always, it’s 100% Falanghina made all in tank with a just-right touch of lees contact.  The 2022 edition serves up bold, expressive, scents of ripe apple, nectarine, mid-summer honeysuckle and ripe Meyer lemon.  The flavors are generous and complex, too, with notes of pear and peach orchard fruit complemented by fresh orange and yellow citrus and salty stone mineral flavors.  But what really makes this so fantastic zest and zing – entering with rapier-like focus and driving the flavors all the way to the back of your palate and propelling a long, mouthwateringly, salty/citric finish. 

If other refreshing Italian whites – like Pinot Grigio, Verdicchio, Vermentino, etc. – and stony Sancerre or Rias Baixas Albarino are your thing, then you really want to try this. Even fans of exuberant New Zealand Sauvignon Blanc will fine enough fruit and volume here to satisfy, while anyone who enjoys the stony minerality and cut of fine Sancerre or Chablis is going to love the value here. A terrific seafood and solo sipping wine, for sure, but try it with basil-flecked Pizza Margherita for very special treat!

James Suckling: 91 Points

“A very good, effusively energetic, streamlined falanghina. Bitter almond, a fleck of tangerine, tonic and gardenia. The finish is nicely chewy, salty and very persistent. A savory restraint, the MO. Drink or hold.”

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