Winemaker Notes
Yellow with golden reflections. Intense aromas of plum and pear. Lively acidity and spicy minerality typical of the territory, with an incredibly long finish showing soft notes of balsamic and mint.
Professional Ratings
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Tasting Panel
This iconic grape from the Cutizzi Vineyard, which ranges from 1,400 to 2,300 feet in elevation, makes an entrance with pizzazz, showing bright, shiny, wispy notes of caramel-kissed pine nut, lemon verbena, and fresh linen. A dash of white pepper and subtle peach flavors are freshened by stark acidity
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Robert Parker's Wine Advocate
Packaged in its distinctive ribbed bottle, the Feudi di San Gregorio 2021 Greco di Tufo Cutizzi offers a fine and delicate window onto this promising white grape from southern Italy. This expression is delicately etched and polished with fine citrus, grapefruit, crushed oyster shell and hints of wild flower and acacia. Elegant restraint is the name of the game in this wine, with fruit from high-elevation chalk and mineral-rich soils.
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James Suckling
A juicy, flavorful white with aromas of sliced pear, jasmine, papaya and grapefruit. Subtle herb hints too. Medium-bodied with crisp acidity. Dry and mineral at the end.
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Wine Spectator
A svelte white, with juicy acidity well-meshed with a stony undertow and flavors of ripe yellow peach, lychee and star fruit. Delivers delicate hints of star anise, elderflower and raw almond. Drink now. 5,000 cases made, 1,000 cases imported.
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.