Costa delle Viole 2022 - Giovanni Iannucci

Costa delle Viole - Giovanni Iannucci

A Barbera del Sannio with characteristics completely different from Piedmontese. The grapes come from the clayey and calcareous soils of Guardram Saframonti in Beneventano. Manual harvest and fermentation spontaneous fermentation with the only native yeasts the steel tanks. Continue refining in the same tanks for eight months. Barbera Costa delle Viole is intense ruby red color. The nose scents of red fruit, cherries, viscounts and spicy notes. In the mouth it is warm, body-wrapping, with excellent acidity and easy-going and pleasant drink. Long lasting.

Service

Let's taste the Barbera Costa dei Viola at a temperature of 16/18 ° in tulip goblets. Wine to drink immediately but leave a few years in the cellar can give great emotions.

Pairings

Excellent with homemade appetizers, first courses, meat dishes, pork chops.

Cellar: Giovanni Iannucci

The company of Giovanni Iannucci is located in Guardia Sanframondi, a small village of Sannio beneventano famous throughout Italy for its fine wines. John, after a parenthesis in the city, decides to go home because it is too loud the call to land that has accompanied all the years of his youth. Joy, passed between the vineyards and making good wine, the great passion of his family. Giovanni Iannucci decides to relaunch this activity and to make it a real trade, to get the wine that is exciting and reflects the traditions of the past. He chooses to focus only on two native varieties of Sannio, Falanghina and Barbera del Sannio, cultivated with cultivation methods that combine new techniques of processing with the wisdom of the past. Chemical fertilizers, herbicides and synthetic treatments have been abolished in the vineyard, where necessary, and small quantities of copper and sulfur are used to protect plants. In the cellar the vinification is spontaneous, no use of selected yeasts or oenological products and low sulfur doses. The wines of Giovanni Iannucci carry the signs of the seasons they gave them, and they speak a single language year after year.