Taurasi

Redimore is 100% Aglianco from one of Mastroberardino’s vineyards just outside the famous Campanian town of Taurasi. The wine spends 12 months in French oak barriques to round out the intense structure Aglianico can have. This is a savoury wine, intense in colour and with notes of dark cherry, wild herbs, rose and spice on the nose. The palate is rich and earthy – with blackcurrant fruit, balsam and anise. The fine grippy tannins are countered by refreshing acidity. Try with porchetta, wild boar ragù or richly flavoured wild mushroom dishes.
Matt Smith, Buyer (spring 2019)

The 2017 Greco di Tufo NovaSerra exhibits full and generous fruit spread over a crisp, lean mouthfeel. The wine is generous in terms of bouquet, with fragrant tones of citrus, pear, white peach and crushed seashell. It is lean in texture, but it does award lengthy freshness and a tight, silky finish.
Monica Larner, The Wine Advocate (winter 2018) 

A giant of a wine, and aptly named, this mythical Taurasi was hand-made in tiny quantities by Luigi Tecce from his tiny five-hectare family estate in the village of Paternopoli, above the Calore river that shapes the Taurasi zone, at an altitude of 550 metres.

The 2012 is particularly impressive thanks to the hot Scirocco that blew, naturally concentrating the berries; the harvest taking place a bit earlier, between 7th October and 3rd November. The skins were thicker than normal, allowing Luigi to extend the maceration to an eye-watering 60 days. Despite the evident “matter”, Luigi has captured the pacey, redcurrant energy of the wine; it’s rich with full berries, wellstructured but alive with an almost raspberry essence to allow a long development in bottle.
Drink 2020-2030.

The 2008 Taurasi Radici Riserva Antonio is a one-off wine made only this vintage to celebrate the incredible life and influence of Antonio Mastroberardino who passed away in January 2014. The wine is made only with fruit from the Montemarano vineyard and it ages in wood for 30 months (40% sees botte grande and 60% goes into barrique). This is a beautifully polished and sophisticated wine with a deep, dark color and an impressively silky quality to the tannins. The bouquet shows ethereal tones of dried earth, rose petal, tar, resin and cola. The 2008 vintage was especially successful terms of phenolic ripeness for color intensity and aromas. I went back to the wine an hour after tasting it and was delighted to see that it continued to evolve and open. This is an elegant wine dedicated to one of the most passionate advocates of Campania wine.
Monica Larner - The Wine Advocate, 30th April 2015

Due to the mild weather conditions, and rain during September and October, Luigi had to work hard in the vineyards; thankfully his old vines were left unfazed by the humidity. Ironically, this has treated us to more of a Piedmontese Taurasi. For the colour is paler than normal, while the nose remains delicate, intricate, mentholated; the palate energetic with great raspberry tension and zip. It even has something of Serralunga (Barolo) about it… but with an even sunnier side. Made from only Paternopoli, old vine fruit, macerated/punched down for 40 days in large open chestnuts tubs, followed by 12 months tonneaux, and 12 months botte grande.
David Berry Green