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Laser-focused Italian White

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  • 94 pts Vinous
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2017 Vadiaperti Coda di Volpe Campania 750 ml

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Undiscovered Gem: Italy’s best-kept secret

If unoaked and energetic is the way you like your white wines, this one is for you: It struck us as a perfect aperitif wine, and an absolute dream with shellfish or any seafood. 

What is Coda di Volpe? This obscure white Italian grape variety—which is unknown to most American wine drinkers and maybe even most Italians—had our Master Sommelier off his flashcards. But when we realized that we could share this 94-point wine—an energetic, mineral-driven gem showing apple, pear, and candied lemon—for less than $25 per bottle, we had to ask: Is low name recognition always such a bad thing?

This crisp Italian white has endorsements coming from all angles: Not only did it thrill us, but also the crew at Vinous that bestowed the above score on this white, calling it a “very interesting and complex Coda di Volpe wine from the recognized master of the variety.”

If any producers deserve to represent the Coda di Volpe grape to this country, it’s Troisi. Antonio Troisi emigrated to the United States in the early 1900s in order to establish a market for the wines produced of his native Campania, the region that surrounds the city of Naples on Italy’s west coast. Campania is known for some of the most picturesque coastlines in Europe: deep blue waters and dramatic cliffs, clung to by colorful homes that are seemingly stacked upon one another. It is also home to Mount Vesuvius, which has endowed the region with an abundance of volcanic soils, and while Antonio was in the United States promoting the wines of his homeland, his son Raffaele was planting the family’s first grape vines in some of the area’s highest and coolest vineyard sites. 

Raffaele—Antonio Troisi’s great-grandson, raised in the rows of the family vineyard—is now the face of one of the families most associated with the native grapes of Campania. He is also the man Vinous calls “the recognized master of the (Coda di Volpe) variety,” which he raises on 24 acres of organic vineyards located between 1,200 and 2,100 feet above sea level. The grapes are planted in soils consisting of volcanic rock and well-draining tufo soils, and are hand-harvested, full-cluster pressed, and fermented on native yeasts in stainless steel tanks. The result is a focused, aromatic, and herbaceous white or beautiful complexity, that really shows off its creamy texture when you let it come up a few degrees from fridge temperature. 

If you’re going to let a new wine into your life, it might as well be a critical darling and a stunning value. Don’t miss this.