MANYARI

Manyari is the most immediately welcoming wine in the Vigne Brigante range — the Gaglioppo in its freshest, most approachable register, conceived as an entry point into one of Calabria's most ancient and characterful wine traditions. The name carries the ease and warmth that the wine itself expresses: this is Cirò without ceremony, without the weight of extended barrel ageing, in the particular attractiveness and mellow freshness that only a well-made light style of a great indigenous variety can achieve.

The Gaglioppo vine has occupied the soils of Cirò since Greek antiquity — a variety of ancestral roots and considerable potential that has shaped the winemaking identity of the province of Crotone for longer than most Italian appellations have existed. At Vigne Brigante, where each individual row and each individual vine receives the attention of winemakers who understand their terroir with the intimacy of those who grew up within it, even the freshest expression of the grape carries the specific mineral and aromatic signature of the steep hillside and the clayey soil that make this estate distinctive.

On the nose, Manyari offers fruity notes and immediate aromas of hilly herbs and flowers — the aromatic landscape of the Cirò hills translated directly into wine form, without the mediation of wood or extended maceration. It is a wine of seasonal character, of the immediate moment rather than the cellar, designed to be opened with pleasure and consumed with the same ease.

The palate is pleasant and mellow — attractive in its accessibility without being simple, a quality that the best light-style expressions of great varieties consistently demonstrate. This is a Gaglioppo that says: here is what this grape is, before time and oak have had their say. It is a persuasive argument.

Manyari pairs naturally with the lighter preparations of southern Italian cuisine and is at its best served slightly cool. Available through UniqueWines.