Don Chisciotte Campania Fiano (Orange Wine) 2020

Country: Italy

Region: Campania

Farming: Certified Organic

Grape: 100% Fiano

no sulfites added. 1000 cases produced.  Creamy lemon curd, thyme, basil, textured, with refreshing acidity. An orange wine that still tastes like wine with expressive quality of the grape itself. 

From the importer:

Nerina and Pierluigi started this adventure of extreme growing of natural products in 1977 with grains and tomatoes. In 202, they also planted the Fiano variety in these black volcanic soils. In 2020, their daughter Rita came back from home to start to work with them, and tilt at the windmills of this extreme - wind howling - growing area.* And they’ll need her help. This orange Fiano, grown on Alta Irpiania’s high plains, is pushing the limits at 800 meters / c. 2600 ft!. We know of no other Campanian producer making such a high-wire Fiano. Edgy, grippy, mountain herbs, and a wonderfully complex texture from the acidity and the 10 maceration on the skins. * Tilting is jousting with an imagined enemy. The expression derives from Cervantes' Don Quixote.’ Don Chisciotte is the Italian spelling of Don Quixote, the literary figure that encapsulated how they felt using old-work natural techniques, while gazing on the newly constructed wind turbines.