Winemaker Notes
The perfume is intense and persistent. One can recall in the nose clear sensations of fruit. For the taste, one immediately perceives the broad acidity and the spicy minerality, typical of a vine cultivated in Tufo. Immediately following, there are soft notes of balsamic.
Drink with raw fish, buffalo mozzarella and first courses of white meats.
Professional Ratings
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Wine Enthusiast
Spring blossom, wild herb and cantaloupe aromas waft out of the glass on this lovely white. Bright and polished, the tangy palate offers ripe pear, Meyer lemon and a hint of almond alongside a mineral vein of saline.
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James Suckling
Fresh and precise Greco with white-peach and green table-grape character on a medium palate with balanced acidity that exalts the flavors.
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Robert Parker's Wine Advocate
The Feudi di San Gregorio 2020 Greco di Tufo is a bright and citrusy wine that offers grapefruit, white almond and minty pear. The wine is lean and fresh and full of the kind of taut tension that makes it a real pleasure to drink. A plate of spaghetti con vongole would do well.
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.