【Wine Enthusiast 90pts】
【Robert Parker 97pts】
【Cellar Tracker 93pts】
【James Suckling 96pts】
【Vivino 4.3】
【 Campania 】
I239 - Galardi Terra di Lavoro 2008Price: $625/bottle
Production area： Italy / Campania IGT
Grape varieties: 80% Aglianico , 20% Piedirosso
Alcohol： 14%
Galardi is a winery in northwestern Campania, Italy, founded in 1991 by Dora and Maria Luisa with Arturo, Roberto and Francesco. It produces single wines under the Roccamonfina IGT, Terra di Lavoro, using native Italian varieties Aglianico and Piedirosso. The estate consists of approximately 10 hectares (25 acres) of hillside vineyards and volcanic soil. These vineyards are located at about 1,300 feet (400 meters) above sea level and are planted only to Aglianico and Piedirosso. The territory extends into volcanic terrain with great potential, sloping down into the sea. Vineyards and olive groves are set among charming chestnut groves that alternate on the slopes of the Rocca Montfina volcano, providing a unique terroir for the grapes. The estate's production is low - only a few thousand bottles of Terra di Lavoro are produced each year. Terra di Lavoro shows better results in the hot rainy season. Terra di Lavoro 2010 and 2008 represent the best examples produced to date. Terra di Lavoro is characterized by its long-term evolution over time. Terra di Lavoro, meaning place of work, has to do with the difficult growing of fruit from the rocky soil of the estate. Consisting of 80% Aglianico and 20% Piedirosso, this wine is aged for one year in new French oak barrels before being bottled unrefined and filtered.
Since its debut in 1994, Terra di Lavoro has been a huge success with audiences and critics around the world, consistently being named one of the best Italian wines. The vineyards were built on family land in the municipalities of Galluccio and Sessa Orenca in the region, which until the early 1900s was in the province of Tra di Lavolo. The color of the wine is deep and intense. The aromatic panorama ranges from red berries to resinous balsamic notes with spicy peaks. The mineral notes that have always been the backbone of Terra di Lavoro are not to be missed. The tannins are soft and elegant, and the aroma is persistent, very long. The map on the label depicting the Terra di Lavoro label is a 700-year-old map depicting southern Italy during the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies.
【Wine Enthusiast 90pts】
Terra di Lavoro (a blend of Aglianico and Piedirosso) is packaged in a handsome bottle and opens with inky, dark richness. The well concentrated wine is redolent of espresso bean, rum cake, chocolate, leather and moist pipe tobacco. The sweet tannins are very astringent still so give this wine time to soften.
【James Suckling 96pts】
Crushed berries, black pepper, cloves, ash and hot stones. It’s full-bodied and dense with chewy tannins and a long, flavorful finish. It’s tight and very structured in the mouth. Chewy yet polished tannins. Unique flavors of tar and black stones. Drink after 2024.
【Campania IGT 】
Throughout the Italian territory, there are five volcanic rock wine-producing areas, and many of them are around active volcanoes. The five volcanic rock wine-producing areas are Piedment (Piedmont), Veneto (Veneto), Campania (Campania). ), Sicily, Umbria (Umbria) and Lazio (Lazio). Campania is a beautiful and charming wine region in southwestern Italy. Two of the most dangerous volcanoes in the world are located here, Mount Vesuvius and Campi Flegrei. Mount Vesuvius is located east of Naples and last erupted in 1944. The more famous event here is that in AD 79, Pompeii (Pompeii) was buried under about 6 meters of volcanic ash and pumice. The violent eruption of Mount Vesuvius created the volcanic soil in the wine-growing region of Irpinia. The Irpinia region is home to the indigenous red grape variety Aglianico and the white grapes Fiano and Greco.
Campania has a varied climate and diverse terroir. With a typical Mediterranean climate, it is sunny and ideal for growing grapes and a variety of crops. The wines from Campania are fruity and full of energy. Baijiu is known for its aroma, often with the fragrant aroma of local flowers.
In 1985, Italian wine authority and author Sheldon Wasserman sighed in his famous book "Italy's Noble Red Wines" that "Aglianico is a noble grape forgotten by the world"
Three thousand years ago, when the Greeks developed southern Italy, they brought Aglianico here, and since then it has taken root in Italy and has become one of the most historic grape varieties. The Greeks called this region Oenotria (the land of wine), and from the Roman emperor to the late 16th century Pope also favored the wine of this region, which shows that this is also the earliest noble grape in Italy. Sadly, Agnico was nearly wiped out after the phylloxera storm of the 19th century. It was not until the 20th century that it gradually recovered.
Agnico is now one of the most widely planted grape varieties in southern Italy, mainly in the southern regions of Campania and Basilicata. In recent years, outside Italy, more and more countries and regions have begun to grow Agnico, especially in Australia and the United States. Because of its late maturity, it can better adapt to the pressure of global warming.
