Style
Type
Still
Appellation
Campi Flegrei
Varieties
Falanghina
Viticulture
All organic practices, no chemicals are used and the use of extensive cover crops are employed.
Farming
Certified Sustainable
Terroir
Campi Flegrei is a unique appellation, located entirely within the city limits of Napoli. The area is a vast system of underground volcanoes, consisting of 70 craters “caldera” in all. Cantine Astroni has 15 hectares of vines around the main “Astroni" crater, from with the winery derives its name.
Soil is typically a light, young volcanic sand, with a high element of Potassium creating more salty and lower PH wines.
Falanghina from this region tend to have more 'coastal aromas’, a saline minerality with more freshness and lower alcohol than the Falanghina from Benevento
Vineyard
Colle Imperatrice is a single vineyard. 100% Falanghina grown in sandy loam soil of volcanic origins. 200 m a.s.l. Harvested by hand at end of September, beginning of October
Vinification
Grapes undergo a brief cold-soak before fermentation. Fermentation occurs over 2 weeks in stainless steel at consistent cool temperatures. The wine sees a short aging “sur lie” in steel with weekly battonage for 6 months before bottling. No malo takes place.
Features
Cork
Available Sizes (L)
0.750
Distribution Area
Delaware, New Jersey, New York, and Pennsylvania
“It has been said that this variety entered in Italy from the port of Cuma, an ancient colony founded in 700 BC at the foot of the Phlegrean Fields. The Greeks cultivated their vines by leaving them to crawl on the ground. In Italy, however, this type of training system produced moldy grapes. So the settlers were forced to look for an alternative method. This was how the first winemakers understood that by lifting the vines off the ground and attaching them to wooden poles, in Latin phalangae, they avoided the onset of botrytis. From these support systems Vinum Album Phalanginum was born, the ancestor of our Falanghina.”
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