Winemaker Notes
Intense straw yellow color with a golden shimmer. Light scents of ripe pears, apricots, apples, fern and mint. Lively acidity and spicy minerality typical of a vine cultivated in Tufo, with an incredibly long finish showing soft notes of balsamic.
Professional Ratings
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James Suckling
Crushed-stone, cooked-apple and dried-apricot aromas and flavors. Medium to full body with almond and dried lemon to the apple puree.
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Robert Parker's Wine Advocate
The 2019 Greco di Tufo is a smooth and silky classic that shows the deft hand of the Feudi winemaking team. This bottle demonstrates that a wine need not be overly thought or complex to be good. Apricot and summer peach are framed by sweet almond and savory sea salt. The wine is snappy and clean, with plenty of balanced acidity to invite a second, third and fourth pour.
A late-ripening, medium-bodied variety from Campania, Greco delivers a relatively high acidity and flaunts an invigorating mineral character alongside fresh citrus, stone fruitand herb flavors. Somm Secret—The name Tufo comes from the soft, volcanic rock found all over in the subsoil of the region where Greco thrives.
A winemaking renaissance is underfoot in Campania as more and more small, artisan and family-run wineries redefine their style with vineyard improvements and cellar upgrades. The region boasts a cool Mediterranean climate with extreme coastal, as well as high elevation mountain terroirs. It is cooler than one might expect in Campania; the region usually sees some of the last harvest dates in Italy.
Just south of Mount Vesuvio, the volcanic and sandy soils create aromatic and fresh reds based on Piedirosso and whites, made from Coda di Volpe and Falanghina. Both reds and whites go by the name, Lacryma Christi, meaning the "tears of Christ." South of Mount Vesuvio, along the Amalfi Coast, the white varieties of Falanghina and Biancolella make fresh, flirty, mineral-driven whites, and the red Piedirosso and Sciasinoso vines, which cling to steeply terraced coastlines, make snappy and ripe red wines.
Farther inland, as hills become mountains, the limestone soil of Irpinia supports the whites Fiano di Avellino, Falanghina and Greco di Tufo as well as the most-respected red of the south, Aglianico. Here the best and most age-worthy examples come from Taurasi.
Farther north and inland near the city of Benevento, the Taburno region also produces Aglianico of note—called Aglianico del Taburno—on alluvial soils. While not boasting the same heft as Taurasi, these are also reliable components of any cellar.