Winemaker Notes
Straw yellow color with hints of green. Notes of yellow peach, apricot, grapefruit, bergamot, quince, ginger, white flowers and Asian spices on the nose. Dry and balanced on the palate with a long, pleasing finish.
Professional Ratings
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Robert Parker's Wine Advocate
The certified organic San Salvatore 1988 2022 Greco Calpazio is an easy-drinking wine that pops with plenty of freshness, citrus and crispy green apple. This lean-bodied white keeps the palate refreshed thanks to all these snappy, vibrant qualities. Production is 20,000 bottles.
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Vinous
Sweet smoke, crushed Granny Smith apple and incense create an inviting bouquet as the 2022 Paestum Greco Calpazio opens in the glass. This is texturally deep, nearly oily in feel, with a balancing core of minerals and tart orchard fruits to balance, complicated by savory herbs tones toward the close. The 2022 finishes with a chewy concentration of sour melon and green citrus notes that fade slowly.
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James Suckling
This producer’s wines tend to be marked by bright tropical accents that can become tiring. Yet the textural precision and salty beam of balancing freshness cannot be denied. Solid.
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Wine Spectator
A lively, light-bodied white, displaying aromas and flavors of green melon, grapefruit sorbet, salted Marcona almond and verbena. Drink now. 500 cases made, 100 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.