Manche
2,2 ha · 160 m · East · 2008
East-facing: it gets the sun early and loses it early, which in Calabria is half the battle for a white.
SD—03 · Cirò Bianco DOC
Lipuda
The grape the Greeks brought here, still exactly where they left it.
Tasting
Straw-yellow with green glints. The nose starts closed and needs coaxing: citron, chamomile, bitter almond underneath. The palate is broader than the colour suggests, and it closes on a bitter note — a trait of Greco, not a flaw, and the reason it can stand up to oily fish without being flattened.
Pairings
- — Salt cod with potatoes and dried peppers
- — Mixed fried fish
- — Fresh sheep ricotta
Service
11 °C, wide bowl
Profile
- Acidity
- Tannin
- Body
- Salinity
Technical sheet
- Appellation
- Cirò Bianco DOC
- Vintage
- 2024
- Grape
- 100% Greco Bianco
- Parcels
- Lipuda · Manche
- Soil
- White clay and river silt
- Vinification
- Six-hour cold soak, spontaneous fermentation in steel
- Ageing
- 6 months on lees, weekly bâtonnage
- Alcohol
- 12,5%
- Bottles
- 8.900
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Where it comes from
The parcels in this bottle.
Lipuda
3,0 ha · 96 m · North-east · 2001
It runs along the stream. In dry years it is the only parcel that does not suffer; in wet ones it is the first to give trouble.