Feudi di San Gregorio San Greg Rosato 2025
£18.95
The wine
An elegant, pale-pink rose with delicate floral overtones layered with red berry notes. Crisp and refreshing, with nuances of cherry and wild raspberry through to an uplifting finish. Aglianico picked early and pressed gently.
A rose from Aglianico, one of Italy's most tannic and deeply coloured red grapes, which requires the juice to be run off the skins within hours. The variety's naturally high acidity is exactly what a pink wine from a warm region needs, and it gives red-cherry fruit with a savoury, mineral edge rather than sweetness.
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.
