Zagreo – Skin Contact Fiano – Vinity Wine Company

Zagreo – Skin Contact Fiano

Italian Regions, Wines

I Cacciagalli’s Zagreo is a fresh, fat and confident skin-contact wine. Engaging, accomplished and complete, this fiano is capable of capturing your attention and then making you chase it. Disarmingly drinkable, a wine to bite into.

Appellation: Roccamonfina IGP, Cacciagalli, Teano (Ce)

Type: Skin-contact white or ‘orange’ wine

Varietal: 100% Fiano

Organic and Biodynamic

Diane Iannaccone and Mario Basco of I Cacciagalli in Campania produce their extended skin contact ‘orange’ Fiano, “Zagreo” in amphorae with minimal intervention. The estates’s terrain is volcanic, it lies on the foot of the dormant Roccamonfina volcano. Fiano thrives in the volcanic soils bringing minerality to its natural richness and ageing potential.

Wine Details:

Tasting Notes:

Color: Bright golden.

Bouquet: Complex aromas of wild herbs, chamomile, and fresh hay overlay just-picked apricot, white peach, and pear.

Taste: In the mouth it is all confirmed with the typical Fiano notes of fruit, nuts and honey. There is also an earthy note and hints of citrus peel mid-palate that carries through on the lovely, skin-contact-tannic finish.

Alcohol: 13% (varies with vintage)

Serving Temperature: 10-12 C° (50-54º F).

Food Pairings: Fish starters, grilled, baked or fried fish main courses, vegetable dishes, mushroom dishes, and risotto.

Vinyard Notes:

Area of production: Cacciagalli, Teano (Ce) 200m AMSL.

Elevation: 200 meters (650 feet) a.s.l.

Soil: Volcanic, limy-clayey with good organic matter.

Training System: Guyot.

Density: 4,400 vines per Ha.

Yield: 40-50 q/hectare.

Winemaking Notes:

Harvest: Manual, the last days of September.

Yeasts: Ambient, native yeasts.

Vinification: Vinified and aged in amphora with long skin contact maceration. The finished wine is unfiltered and unclarified.