Greco di Tufo DOCG

Noble wine deriving from an ancient vine, of Greek origin, with incomparable typicality, affirmed all over the world for its aromas and flavour. Greco di Tufo DOCG is not a white wine like any other. Because white has only the color and some more delicate hints. The combination with fish dishes is best with dishes based on seafood and shellfish, even for those seafood recipes, few, which include the addition of cream. Its decisive note allows you to "vitalize" the flavor of the fish w read more

Noble wine deriving from an ancient vine, of Greek origin, with incomparable typicality, affirmed all over the world for its aromas and flavour. Greco di Tufo DOCG is not a white wine like any other. Because white has only the color and some more delicate hints. The combination with fish dishes is best with dishes based on seafood and shellfish, even for those seafood recipes, few, which include the addition of cream. Its decisive note allows you to "vitalize" the flavor of the fish which is eventually covered by overly loaded condiments, even the butter which is added, arguably, in many seafood dishes to mix the pasta with seafood and shellfish. Being the Greco di Tufo, a sort of hybrid, or as those who want to make it clear that they understand it like to say, "a red dressed as white", the most appropriate cuisine for pairings is the so-called "sea and mountains" which combines the ingredients of the earth and the sea. read less

The native inhabitants probably already cultivated vines when the Greek colonizers arrived in the area, but the first historical trace of viticulture dates back to the 1st century BC. It is a fresco from Pompeii where "Greek wine" is read. Its diffusion starts from the slopes of Vesuvius to arrive in the Avellino area where it takes the name Greco di Tufo. There are indications that, previously, it was called Aminea Gemina (Gemina because it often produced double bunches): Aristotle in fact beli read more

The native inhabitants probably already cultivated vines when the Greek colonizers arrived in the area, but the first historical trace of viticulture dates back to the 1st century BC. It is a fresco from Pompeii where "Greek wine" is read. Its diffusion starts from the slopes of Vesuvius to arrive in the Avellino area where it takes the name Greco di Tufo. There are indications that, previously, it was called Aminea Gemina (Gemina because it often produced double bunches): Aristotle in fact believed that the Aminee vine came from Thessaly, the land of origin of the Greek colonizers.[1] The vine was then brought to the province of Avellino by the Pelasgians in the 1st century BC. As regards its quality, Pliny the Elder bears witness: «" In truth, Greek wine was so precious that it was poured only once at banquets"» (Pliny the Elder[1]) Other testimonies come to us from the writings of Cato, Varrone, Virgil, and Columella who, among other things, inform us that up to fifty liters of wine were obtained from a single vine of a pergola. On 5 November 1592, the king authorized the Captain of Montefusco, capital of the Principato Ultra (the current province of Avellino), to collect a gabelle of 4 carlini for each soma of wine entering the city. The "Appreciation of the Feud of the Barony of Montefusco of 1704" (parish archive of Sant'Angelo a Cancello, file 2/16) reported that over 61% of the feudal lands were occupied by vineyards. The report of May 29, 1815, made by the mayor of Tufo and the decurional body, attests that the vine occupied approximately 286 tons of land.[1] In the 19th century, thanks to the discovery of the sulfur deposits of Tufo, viticulture, with the "sulphuring", acquired a powerful weapon against pathogens, thus being able to expand further. In fact, it exceeds one million hectoliters produced, with great development of exports and related industries. The construction of the first railway in Irpinia gives a further boost to exports and therefore to production.[1] The value, from both a technical and economic point of view, of Greco di Tufo has received repeated recognition: it begins in 1909 in the Ampelographie of Viala and Vermol “....Greco Bianco di Tufo: vine of the southern regions of Italy and above all of the province of Avellino, much appreciated and much cultivated for the superior quality of its wine, of a yellow-gold color; it is probably the Aminea Gemella of the ancient authors; it is also the vine that was cultivated, in the first century BC. on the slopes of Vesuvius."; in 1927 in "A vine of ancient nobility: Greco del Vesuvio or Greco di Tufo : (Aminea twin L.G.M. Columella): ampelographic notes and winemaking experiences" by the ampelographer Ferrante, similar confirmation is found. in 1964 in "Greco (or Greco di Tufo), Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry, Main wine grape varieties grown in Italy" by Bordignon S. again it is confirmed that "The Greco is to be identified with the Aminea Gemella of Columella for many very valid arguments such as the area of ​​culture which is the one occupied in ancient times by the Aminee, the characteristics of the bunch.., as well as the goodness of the wine praised through the times...." the last quote is from prof. Garoglio who in his treatise "New Enology" describes it as a very valuable wine whose production must be encouraged by all means. read less