Quartara Lunarossa 2021
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Callmewine's FavouritesQuartara is a Fiano vinified on the skins in jars and aged in oak barrels. It is a rich and complex white wine, with perfumes of honey, toasted fruits ans spices, with a dry, savory and full-bodied tatse, with delicate tannins. A white wine for ageing!
The Quartara is a brilliant expression of Fiano vinified in amphora with long skin contact: a great interpretation of the terroir of the Monti Picentini, in the Salerno area, and the pride of the Lunarossa winery. It owes its name to the particular type of amphora used, called 'quartara': terracotta otri with ancient peasant origins, once widespread in southern Italy for preserving wine and abandoned for years in cellars. It is a sort of well-executed experiment, revived from the past as a replacement for cold steel containers and modern wooden barrels. Thus, this clear and genuine white is born, with an unmanipulated look, capable of revealing the most sincere soul of the Salerno territory.
For the production of Quartara, minimal quantities of Santa Sofia grapes are also used, a white grape variety very similar to Fiano and now forgotten, cultivated in Cilento until the 19th century. The Fiano and Santa Sofia grapes are destemmed and placed with the skins in 250-liter quartare, where spontaneous fermentation occurs. This fermentation and maceration process can last, depending on the vintages, from 60 to 90 days: the skins of the grapes progressively release color and aromatic substances, and the wine is enriched in structure also thanks to contact with the fine lees. Once this process is completed, the wine rests in oak barrels for about a year and is bottled without filtration and clarification.
The Quartara Lunarossa presents itself as an intense and complex white wine with a deep golden yellow color, slightly opaque. Its bouquet is rich and wide and recalls candied fruit, honey, ginger, spices, anise, and fennel. On the palate, it reveals a full and voluminous sip, endowed with a fresh and mineral personality, which extends towards a persistent and vanilla finish. We are talking about a wine with a good aging potential, already in great shape, but we are sure that over time it will reach peaks of great excellence. Modernity and ancienttradition pulse in unison in the heart of Quartara.