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AGLIANICO RISERVA KAPNIOS

RIPE AND RICH FULL BODIED RED

The wine gets its name from the word “Kapnios” which in ancient Greek translated as “smoked”. In Latin the word “capnios” was then used to describe a kind of wine from grapes of smoky appearance. It is indeed believed that in Roman age in Northern Campania, the local tribe of the Samnites used to make wine with dried grapes that showed a grey and smoky appearance. The wine produced had also a distinctive smoky taste due to the drying natural process of the grapes in the sun. In the same area thousand of years later Masseria Frattasi makes one of their top wines by drying their best grapes of Aglianico in an open pergola style housing where they are clipped vertically and hung in rows.

The long ageing in French oak barriques (18 months) and the further time spent in the bottle soften the firm tannic structure and the acidity of the Aglianico grapes revealing lush layers of sweetened fruit and dried floral aromas blended together with dusty and spiced smoke savoury flavours.