Poliphemo R18 - Luigi Tecce

Poliphemo R18 - Luigi Tecce

Poliphemo R18" is the latest creation from Lugi Tecce, a powerful and complex red wine obtained from 100% Aglianico grapes. The grapes come from old, naturally grown vineyards found on sandy clayey soils of a calcareous nature with the presence of sand greater than elsewhere. The harvest is manual and in the cellar the fermentation takes place only using natural yeasts in chestnut vats. Very long maceration of 40 days. The subsequent refinement takes place for 12 months in old tonneaux, 12 months in 50hl barrels and a further 12 months in the bottle. No clarification or filtration before bottling. Wine with an intense ruby ​​red color. The nose is complex with ripe dark-fleshed fruit, fruit in alcohol and spicy notes. The mouth is structured, enveloping with a very long finish.

Service

We taste it at a 16/18° temperature in tulip goblets. Wine to drink immediately but if left a few years in the cellar can give great satisfaction. To open a few minutes before tasting it.

Pairings

Wine that goes perfectly to the second important red meat, to try with a baked kid.

Cellar: Lugi tecce

Luigi Tecce's family has been producing wine for generations in the Trinità district in Paternopoli, a town in the province of Avellino. Luigi chooses not to follow in the family footsteps but to devote himself to the career of jockey until 1997 when, due to the sudden death of his father, he is forced to leave his job and take over the family business that then owned a hectare of vineyards . Luigi Tecce has clear ideas on how to produce his wine, not standard and prepackaged wines but, a wine that could reflect its territory. Buy other hectares of vineyards that grow their vineyards, some dating back to the 1930s, using natural methods. During the harvest it gathers the bunches one by one, as they have reached perfect ripeness. For winemaking, he accepts only the advice of his friend Vincenzo Mercurio, and his wines are produced through spontaneous fermentation with only indigenous yeasts, long maceration on the skins and aging in barrique. Luigi Tecce's wines are powerful, fine, elegant, mirror of the territory. A curiosity, Luigi Tecce dedicates the Taurasi of the 2001 vintage to Varenne, the famous racehorse that won numerous trophies that year.