under a stars and stripes christmas tree
Big surprises are under the stars and stripes Christmas tree of Terredora.
In particular one label, once again, has been awarded in December with a score to frame by one of the most famous American magazines, The Wine Advocate, better known as Robert Parker's Wine Advocate, the magazine, born in 1978, helped to make wine known in United States, attracting buyers' interest.
At the turning point of forty years, the reputation of Wine Advocate goes on to grow and, even today, its important scores keep being one of the most authoritative awards.
The emotion is, then, a lot when it is the last of the big labels of your company to win the appreciation of criticism, constantly, vintage after vintage, since the first harvest.
A wine, Taurasi Pago dei Fusi, born a bit by bet, but also thanks to the determination of Lucio Mastroberardino who wanted to produce an elegant and powerful Taurasi in an area traditionally known, instead, for products ready to drink.
A wine that is a perfect expression of the versatility of a great denomination such as Taurasi, of the Terredora history, of a tradition that continues and looks at the future as does, in a different style, also Fiano di Avellino CampoRe 2015, the white to which Monica Larner has given 90 points, again in the December of Wine Advocate.
Taurasi Pago dei Fusi 2010 - 94 points “The 2010 Taurasi Pago dei Fusi is a dark and austere Aglianico with dried aromas of red currant and pressed blackberries. There are deeply smoky layers of campfire ash and crushed mineral that hint at the enormous tertiary definition and complexity that can be achieved with Taurasi. The mouthfeel is elegantly streamlined yet very powerful at the same time.”
Fiano CampoRe 2015 - 90 points “The 2015 Fiano di Avellino CampoRe is a full and generous white wine. It exhibits bright notes of white peach, summer fruit, poached pear and crushed mineral. Tasting this wine some three years after the harvest, you do get slightly evolved nuances of crushed stone or sea shell. This is a lean to mid-weight white to drink within the next few years. It sees a brief six months in oak with 36 months of rest in the bottle before its commercial release. Some 9,000 bottles were made.”
Taurasi Pago dei Fusi 2010 - 94 points “The 2010 Taurasi Pago dei Fusi is a dark and austere Aglianico with dried aromas of red currant and pressed blackberries. There are deeply smoky layers of campfire ash and crushed mineral that hint at the enormous tertiary definition and complexity that can be achieved with Taurasi. The mouthfeel is elegantly streamlined yet very powerful at the same time.”
Fiano CampoRe 2015 - 90 points “The 2015 Fiano di Avellino CampoRe is a full and generous white wine. It exhibits bright notes of white peach, summer fruit, poached pear and crushed mineral. Tasting this wine some three years after the harvest, you do get slightly evolved nuances of crushed stone or sea shell. This is a lean to mid-weight white to drink within the next few years. It sees a brief six months in oak with 36 months of rest in the bottle before its commercial release. Some 9,000 bottles were made.”