2023 KRATOS Fiano Luigi Maffini, Lea & Sandeman

KRATOS

2023 Fiano Luigi Maffini

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Grapes Fiano
Colour White
Origin Italy, Campania
Other Certified Organic
ABV 13.5%

The 2023 Fiano Kratos bursts from the glass with a distinctly mineral bouquet, mixing smoke, crushed rocks and lime zest. Zesty green apples and sour citrus splash across the palate as a saline tinge peppers the senses. The mouth is left salivating for more as the 2023 finishes long yet juicy with a sweet and sour mix of candied lemon and bitter rinds. Both serious and playful, the Kratos is a real treat. Drinking range: 2025 - 2029 Rating: 92 Antonio Galloni, www.vinous.com (Sept 2025)

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Lovely fragrant grapefruit, orange zest and good floral lift. Bold and rich in the mouth, great acid backbone overlaid with orange and grapefruit, ready to go. Bring on the sunshine.L&S (Apr 2024)

Certified organic (Bioagricert). Intense straw yellow. Deep, yet still a little closed with hints of white fruit. Long and finely textured and with great depth of fruit without going overboard. (WS) Drinking range: 2025 - 2029 Rating: 16.5 Walter Speller, www.jancisrobinson.com (Jul 2025)

Various sites in the hills at 350 m. Clay-limestone soils. Harvesting at different ripeness levels, mid August to mid September. Fermented in tank. Ripe stone fruit and lively grapefruit, plus a touch of white pepper. Firm, deep, smooth texture with lots of freshness. Vibrant, mouth-watering and long. Drinking range: 2024 - 2027 Rating: 16.5 Julia Harding MW, www.JancisRobinson.com (Jul 2024)

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'

Summer Holiday Memories

Are you missing your summer holiday? We have curated a mixed case of wines that will bring you right back to that beachside restaurant as you enjoy a lunchtime glass of white wine, or that cool breezy veranda as you sip on a delicious red while the sun sets. This case includes wine from all around the Mediterranean. France, Italy, Spain and Greece.

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