KAPNIOS AGLIANICO AMARO APPASSITO

The Kapnios, wine quoted by Plato (The University) and Pliny (Naturalis Historia) is the

first Amarone, meaning wine withered and dry, history. There

name comes from the Greek capnios smoked. The vine from which the Sunnis

obtained these wines was also caburnica, the modern cabernet, already

Campania three millennia ago. The drying of the grapes in the sun produces the flavor

smoked, hence the name greek.

WINE

From vine Aglianico bitter Taburno mountain in purity, picked grapes

hand in late November, left to dry in the fruit garden. Gained three

years in new barrels of French oak, aged one year in bottle.

ORGANOLEPTIC

The color is purple. The smell reminds blackberries and black currants. The taste

full and balanced with melted tannins and a long finish of roasted coffee

sugar, chocolate, tobacco and spices.

PRODUCTION AREA Screws trees scattered in the countryside of Montesarchio,

Tocco, Bonea

SOIL Clay, limestone

VINE 100% Aglianico

ALTITUDE 700 meters above sea level

TRAINING SYSTEM Appliances unskilled, old trees

prefillossera, three / five kilograms of fruit

HARVEST Manual. Second half of November

ALCOHOL CONTENT 14%

TEMPERATURE

RECOMMENDED

12th

ANNUAL PRODUCTION 2,000 bottles