Cantine di Marzo Fiano di Avellino Classico 2022
Fiano di Avellino DOCG by Cantine di Marzo winery in Avellino area of Campania is 100% finest Fiano grapes from only the first pressing. The wine is pale greenish-yellow with delicate notes of jasmine, pear and passion fruit. A crisp, dry white that weaves citrus, floral and honeyed exotic fruit. Wonderfully appealing and easy to drink while surprisingly complex.
Ideal with sushi or with Pacific Rim style dishes, perfect as an aperitif or even with fruit or light pastry deserts.
Vinification details: the wine rests on the lees for eight months to add structure and complexity. Malolactic conversion is partial, depending on the natural acidity of the vintage. Before bottling, the wine is lightly filtered and stored at cellar temperature until it is ready to be released.
How is the wine made?
Only the first pressing of the grapes is used for this wine, our finest Fiano. This free run juice is the best possible and it is fermented with great care using selected yeasts in temperature controlled tanks. The wine rests on the lees for eight months to add structure and complexity. Malolactic conversion is partial, depending on the natural acidity of the vintage. Before bottling, the wine is lightly filtered and stored at cellar temperature until we judge it to be ready for the market.
About the winery
Di Somma family embarked on an ambitious program of development of Cantine di Marzo winery in 2009 with the goal of expressing the four hundred year old tradition of one of Italy’s oldest wineries, the first to have ever produced the Greco di Tufo wine.
The winery is structured over many levels with a drop of more than 20 meters allowing the use of gravity when moving the must and the wine. Wine making process is followed very carefully so that the wine may express all the personality given by the territory.
The main wines currently produced by the winery are Greco di Tufo, Fiano and Taurasi.
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