2020 Cantine Matrone 'Lacryma Christi del Vesuvio' Rosso, Campania, Italty
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75% Piedirosso, 15% Sciascinoso, 10% Aglianico
The Matrone family has been cultivating vines on the slopes of Mount Vesuvius, just east of Naples, since the 1700s. Fast forward to this century, when Andrea Matrone and his cousin Francesco reappropriated the original 18th-century family cantina and 2.3 hectares of vineyards on the southern slopes of Vesuvius. Farming is in conversion to organic and fermentations are from pied de cuve from local yeasts. Total production is 10,000 bottles. This is another compelling, young producer springing from an old family tradition – a combination that increasingly is making some of the most exciting wines in Italy.
Tight, high tension red fruit, and something wild, smokey and savage. Pomegranate molasses, fresh red and maraschino cherry, and just-ripe red plums lead the fruit elements, an ever-present flinty, mineral twang. Destined for food.