2012-PIETRAINCATENATA-Fiano-Luigi-Maffini

PIETRAINCATENATA

2012 Fiano Luigi Maffini

Grapes Fiano
Colour White
Origin Italy, Campania
ABV 11%

This is a later picked Fiano than the Kratos, which Luigi ferments in new oak barrels and then moves into older wood for almost six months. The grapes come from the best vineyard with a more limestone based soil, the result is fabulous, lots of lovely fresh citrus notes and more concentrated and intense than the Kratos. Again when tasting these with Luigi he pulled out some older bottles to show the wines extraodinary ability to age and we tasted together the 2005. A startling colour, bright almost luminous yellow and fascinating to taste. Really nicely evolved and together, a brilliant fluidity and texture to the wine - deep flavours but still perky and bright. L&S (Jun 2014)


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Given this blind, it could be young Hunter Sémillon on the nose – cedary lemon zest. Fuller on the palate, lemon and lime. Direct and mouth-watering, the fruit intensity balancing the acidity. Much fresher than many Fianos. Great length too. So youthful. Drinking range: 2015 - 2018 Rating: 17 Julia Harding MW, www.JancisRobinson.com (Nov 2015)

Don't worry about the tongue-twister name of this dry white, all that needs to be known is that it's made with Fiano and arguably by the best producer of this grape in southern Italy. This is smarter and more exotic than your average Fiano, with generous apricot flavours and lemon-fresh. Delicious with chicken tagine. GQ Magazine.Jane Parkinson, www.janeparkinson.com (Oct 2015)

Don't be put off by the tongue-twisting name of this Campanian dry white made from the Fiano grape, because the subtly intriguing aromas and intensely flavoured peach and greengage plum fruit all add up to a distinctive dry Southern white with lively grippy acidity and a saline streak on the finish. Rating: 89 The Wine Gang - www.thewinegang.com (Oct 2014)

Luigi Maffini

Luigi Maffini's vineyards are on the coast of Campania, south of Naples, across the bay from Positano, and planted with the local grapes, Fiano for the whites and Aglianico for the reds. While the family's first vines were planted in the seventies, the real beginning of this winery dates from 1996.

Luigi and his wife Raffaella are both graduates of Naples university in agricultural sciences. Luigi specialised in viticulture and winemaking. Ten years elapsed between our first tasting of his wines and getting Luigi 'on board', but he has now been with L&S since 2009.

Raffaella and Luigi run the vineyards organically, and share the land with their two children and three dogs, as well as hares, foxes, hedgehogs, hawks and wild boar, with which they are happy to live in peace. There are now two vineyard sites, at Castellabate and Giungano, so some of the wines are DOC Cilento and some DOC Paestum.

You can read more about the estate on Sarah Marsh's blog 'The English Nose'

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