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Our new partner, Vadiaperti is a generations-old family estate that has both the first and last word on the true character of southern Italian white wines.\u00a0Our selections from the 2014 vintage will be arriving this week\u2014here’s why you need to make space in your cellar for these gorgeous gems.<\/p>\n
The landscape of this northern corner of Campania, called Irpina, looks like the Land of the Lost: deeply green valleys dotted with orange and lemon trees, steep mountains wreathed in swirling fog. We’re in the heart of southern Italy but at altitude, some 2,000 feet above sea level, it’s cool enough to need a jacket.<\/p>\n
This is extraordinary white wine country\u2014solid limestone (like Burgundy) and moisture-retaining volcanic clay, so even in the sweltering Italian summer, vines are never stressed. Ancient Romans for good reason chose Irpina as the source of their most prized Fiano wines; a grape vine never had it so good.<\/p>\n
Raffaele is a vine grower in a long line of wine fanatics\u2014the Troisi family has always been Irpina boosters, working hard to show the world why this corner of southern Italy is a treasure trove for mineral-rich white wines. Importantly, the family has only ever made single-variety wines\u2014blending would be an affront to the grapes’ true character!<\/p>\n
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Much like Roberto Conterno, Manni Nossing or Gunther Kershbaumer (the winermaker\/owner of Kofererhof), Vadiaperti’s Raffaele Troisi is one of those extremely talented individuals who can’t seem to make a bad wine. Look to Vadiaperti for some of Campania’s best Fiano di Avellino wines (especially the cru Aipierti) and, more importantly, for both of its Coda di Volpe wines, the entry-level bottling and the cru Torama. Simply put, nobody makes a better Coda di Volpe wine in Italy. A white wine specialist, Troisi offers steely, minerally, precise interpretations of Fiano, Greco and Coda di Volpe. \u00a0Another plus is that all of his wines age extremely well.<\/p>\n
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Vadiaperti’s Coda di Volpe<\/strong> is the ultimate thirst-quencher, a tangy, honeyed white for appetizers and fresh seafood or shellfish (oysters and Coda di Volpe, a knock-out combination). The name means “tail of the fox,” as grape bunches are thick, like a fox’s tail. Raffaele harvests his Coda di Volpe early, to retain its natural acidity; what’s more, his vineyards sit at 2,100 feet in altitude, some of the highest, and coolest, vineyards in the region.<\/p>\n
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<\/a>Raffaele makes two Fiano di Avellino<\/strong> wines: one, a pure Fiano<\/strong> grown at altitude, and two, a special selection from his oldest vines, called ‘Aipierti’<\/strong>\u2014both of which need to be tasted to be believed.<\/p>\n