CAMPI TAURASINI

Campi Taurasini is the younger Aglianico di Taurasi expression of the Fratelli Addimanda estate — the wine that introduces the grape and the terroir before the full Taurasi DOCG makes its more serious and more demanding statement. It is the champion wine of southern Italy in its most accessible form: produced from the same 100% Aglianico di Taurasi, from the same vineyards at 1,300 feet on volcanic and limestone Irpinian soil, with the same careful selection of bunches in the vineyard that characterises all of the estate's production.

The extended maceration of the skins for about twenty-five days — a commitment to extraction that reflects the family's understanding of what Aglianico needs to develop its full character — is followed by malolactic transformation and ageing in French oak barriques and tonneaux for eighteen to twenty-four months, depending on the vintage. This is a considerable investment of time and attention for what is positioned as the estate's more accessible red, and it speaks of the Addimanda family's unwillingness to compromise quality at any level of their range.

The wine presents as ruby red with excellent complexity and finesse — qualities that the twenty-five days of skin maceration reliably develop in the Aglianico grape when managed with care. The nose offers intense and multifaceted notes of red berry fruit and dried flowers, with hints of tobacco-like tertiary aromas that signal the development that the eighteen to twenty-four months of oak ageing has begun and that bottle ageing will continue.

Campi Taurasini is the wine of the Addimanda family that speaks most directly of the joy of the grape harvest, the sweat of labour in the fields, and the respect for the earth that the family's wine represents — in their own words, a glass that encapsulates their cohabitation with nature and their resilience across generations.

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