Sancho Panza 2019 - Il Tufiello

Sancho Panza - Il Tufiello 

"Sancho Panza" is a macerated white wine which is produced from Fiano grapes selected from plants located at 800 meters high which rest on dry ground and treated only with copper and sulfur. Manual harvest and spontaneous alcoholic fermentation with indigenous yeasts in open vats with a long maceration of 60 days on the skins. Refinement of a few months of rest in steel vats, then in the bottle, without filtration and with very low sulfur dioxide. The Fiano Sancho Panza presents itself in the glass with a golden yellow opaque robe. The nose gives aromas of citrus fruits, hay, yellow berry fruit on a dried fruit background. On the palate it is deep and endowed with an energizing freshnesss.

Service

It is advisable to taste it at a temperature of 8/10 ° in tulip goblets. Wine to drink immediately but will express its potential in a few years.

Pairing

The Sancho Panza is great with fish starters, first courses, fish dishes, to try with rope tail fillets wrapped in speck.

Cellar: Il Tufiello

The Tufiello company is the winery of Guido and Igiea Zampaglione in Alta Irpinia. From the vineyards planted in Calitri,between 750 and 800 meters above sea level, the owners of Tenuta Grillo obtain two versions of Fiano, theSancho Panza and Monte Mattina (a reserve). The latter takes its name from the mountain it hoststhe land owned. For Guido this represents a way not to forget the origins and notabandon the South and Irpinia, the territory where it grew and to which it remains deeply linked. Inside oof a historic company dedicated to organic cereal growing, a property of about 90 hectares, the production of wine for bottling started in 2004, with one hectare of vineyard. Today the vineyard area occupies three and a half hectares, divided into three different vineyards. A feature it is important that in an area with medium clay soils one of the vineyards sees one marked presence of tuff. The parcels are vinified together. To characterize and differentiate SanchoPanza and Monte Mattina is not the quality of the grapes, but the fact that the latter - thought of as a wine from Aging - one year more on the fine lees, which makes it more complex.