Winemaker Notes
The nose is intense and persistent with clear sensations of fruit. On the palate, broad acidity and spicy minerality, typical of a vine culitvated in Tufo. Immediately following, there are soft notes of balsamic.
Drink with fish, mozzarella and white meats.
Professional Ratings
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James Suckling
A large-scaled producer, yet the wines here are reliable at least and at times, good to exceptional. This is a very solid rendition boasting ample fruit, salty freshness, prodigious versatility and best, fealty to variety and the volcanics of place. Almond meal, quince, tangerine and baked apple, with a wisp of fennel and sea spray.
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Robert Parker's Wine Advocate
This is a classic white wine that shows consistent results year after year. With 500,000 bottles made, the Feudi di San Gregorio 2022 Greco di Tufo offers crisp freshness with stone fruit and pear. The wine sits in steel vats for four months. It glides smoothly over the palate thanks to a food-friendly, lean-bodied style and pretty mineral nuances to close.
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Wine Enthusiast
A classic combination of green apple and apricots with the telltale aroma of turf comes through on the nose of this Greco di Tufo, while the palate offers more crisp green apple and also savory, nutty notes before a wet slate, mineral finish.
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Wine & Spirits
A chalky mineral undertone gives structure to this wine’s crunchy green apple and Asian pear flavors. Zesty and refreshing for al fresco dining.
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.