Feudi di San Gregorio Cutizzi Greco di Tufo Riserva 2024
£19.75
The wine
A perfumed and aromatic Greco with beautiful clarity and layers of classic pear, peach and green plum fruit, with decisive hints of balsamic mint. Full bodied and bright on the palate, with lively acidity and defined mineral notes, showing great typicity.
Cutizzi is a single vineyard in the Greco di Tufo zone, and Riserva status requires longer ageing before release. Greco has enough structure and acidity to take it, which is rare among Italian whites; the extra time in bottle builds the smoky, honeyed complexity that makes the grape one of the country's most serious.
The producer
Feudi di San Gregorio
View all Feudi di San Gregorio winesFeudi di San Gregorio began in the mid-1980s in Irpinia, the mountainous inland province east of Naples, with a clear aim: to safeguard local tradition and unlock the potential of Campania's own grapes rather than plant international ones.
Those grapes are among the oldest in Italy. Greco and Aglianico were brought by Greek settlers before the Roman period, Fiano was praised in classical texts, and all three had been reduced to obscurity by the twentieth century. Irpinia is the making of them: inland, mountainous and considerably cooler than the coast, with volcanic soils and altitudes up to 700 metres that give acidity and aromatic definition rarely found this far south.
In under thirty years the estate built a reputation for genuinely world-class wine and did much to change how southern Italy was regarded. Taurasi, its Aglianico appellation, is often called the Barolo of the south, and with reason: the grape ripens as late as November and gives tannin and acidity enough to demand years in bottle. Feudi earned B Corporation certification in 2021.
