“Grande Cuvée Luigi Moio” Bianco Irpinia DOC 2022

Quintodecimo | Campania
Quintodecimo s.a. srl. | Via San Leonardo 27 | IT 83036 Mirabella Eclano

One may wonder whether Luigi Moio is a professor wearing a winemaker's hat or a winemaker wearing a professor's hat. His vintage presentations are academic in tone, his tasting room is run with the rigour of a lecture theatre, and his vineyards are planted according to criteria that only a mathematician or scholar could fully understand. Quintodecimo's winemaking philosophy, on the other hand, is relatively simple. The best vineyard sites are selected for each individual wine. Soils, sites and microclimates are researched with great care. Nothing is taken for granted.

The Grande Cuvée Luigi Moio is the house's new top white cuvée and a carefully thought-out blend of Fiano, Greco and Falanghina, with the blending ratio varying depending on the vintage. It only comes onto the market after 14 months of bottle ageing. The idea was to create a "super-bianco" that represents the best of southern Italy, and the result is magnificent. About 60% of the wine is fermented in oak barrels and the blend is regularly stirred on the lees. The wine has a velvety, rich texture with silky fruit weight and lingering flavours of summer peach, quince, acacia honey and fragrant tuberose. All this beauty is framed by etched notes of saltiness or crushed shells. This is an outstanding achievement and raises the bar for Italian white wines! SUPERIORE.DE

"Bright straw yellow with golden reflections. Elegant bouquet of white peach, melon and Mediterranean scrub, with a fine yeasty note and a touch of vanilla pod. Spreads wide and silky across the palate, with precise, juicy fruit on an invigorating acidity, very long and of great harmony." Falstaff

"The 2022 Grande Cuvée Luigi Moio is impossible to ignore, with a seductive bouquet that mingles crushed stones and custard with a savoury hint of ginger and freshly sliced nectarines. It opens with a lovely inner sweetness complicated by a deep, saline minerality, while crunchy orchard fruits saturate the senses under a hint of pretty inner flowers. The 2022 tapers off lightly textured, savoury and long, with a lingering finish of youthful tension and tantalising acidity that retains a fantastic freshness. What a beauty. The Grande Cuvée ferments in a combination of stainless steel and 60% new French oak, which is masterfully integrated." Vinous

13100722 · 0,75 l · 158,67 €/l · Price (DE) incl. VAT, excl. Shippingavailable immediately
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