ZINGAMARO

Zingamaro is one of the most distinctive wines in the Vigne Brigante range — the second red wine produced from the estate's cru vineyard, offering 100% Greco Nero in its most complete and singular expression. The name carries the wild, itinerant spirit of the variety itself: this is not a grape of careful international cultivation but one of genuine indigenous character, native to the Calabrian hills and shaped over centuries by the specific conditions of the Cirò territory.

Greco Nero — distinct from the Greco Bianco of the same territory despite its shared name — is a red grape of particular personality: warm and soft on the palate, supported by a good persistence that makes it genuinely versatile at the table. At Vigne Brigante, where the organic and sustainable farming practices are applied to each vine with the same attention given to the more celebrated Gaglioppo, the Greco Nero reaches an expression of authentic character and genuine distinctiveness.

The autumn aromas that emerge from the intense ruby coat of Zingamaro are its most immediate signature: spicy and autumnal in register, suggesting the turning season of the Cirò hills when the harvest approaches and the air carries the particular quality of late-ripening fruit. These aromatic notes are the specific contribution of the Greco Nero variety and the specific soil of the estate's cru vineyard — a combination that cannot be replicated elsewhere.

On the palate, Zingamaro is warm and soft — qualities that make it among the most immediately accessible of the estate's reds — with a good persistence that extends the experience well beyond the finish. It pairs perfectly with red meats and game, and equally well with the aged cheeses of the Calabrian tradition. A wine of genuine individuality that deserves wider recognition.

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