![]() ![]() It was used to make other wines, characterized by excessive acidity and reduced alcohol content, softer. For a long time, it was considered a minor vine variety due to its high alcohol content and the low acidity level that reduced its longevity. This characteristic and this name, essentially always confirmed in history, characterize the vine variety whose identity has been recognized and confirmed over the centuries. The name derives from the shape of the bunch that has a curvature in the upper part that makes it look like a foxtail. Already Pliny the Elder, in his Naturalis Historia, cites "minus tamen, caudams vulpium imitata, alopecia". Certainly, it is already present and widespread in Campania during the Roman era. ![]() The Coda di Volpe is a vine that has ancient history, probably due to ancient Greece if not even earlier. For example, first courses, such as pasta and rice, with delicate fish sauces, pasta with traditional country vegetables, then with white meats, fish with non-aggressive cooking or stewed. ![]() The characteristic of good softness, alcohol and with a reduced freshness make it suitable for delicate and acid-based combinations. Due to the good basic alcohol content and the low acidity it is not a wine that has a long longevity. Soft, warm, dry, savoury, slightly fresh, balanced, full-bodied, intense, persistent (especially in fruity and floral notes), refined, ripe, harmonious. It is intense and quite complex (balsamic with hints of sage and tomato leaf, floral with notes of yellow flowers, jasmine and wild flowers, fruity with hints of banana, peach, pear, quince, pineapple, slightly citrus herbaceous, mineral), refined. The mild Mediterranean climate, the cooler temperatures at altitude, and the mineral-rich soils combine for white wines of impeccable balance and finesse.It is a crystalline wine, of an intense straw yellow color, good consistency. And exceptional certainly describes this estate: vineyards are located from 1,200 to 2,100 feet above sea level in the hills of Montefredane, on volcanic “tufo” soils. Since then, his focus as a Troisi has remained true: honor Irpinia’s native grapes, its exceptional soils, and the traditions and knowledge of those before him. And Antonio’s son Raffaele-who today runs the family estate in Montefredane-worked side by side with his father in the cantina and the fields for years, before he took the reins himself in 1998. It was Elisa’s son Antonio who took the family farm into the commercial realm, bottling in 1984 the very first single-variety Fiano wine. While Raffaele died young, his wife Elisa kept his vision alive, and over the decades, became one of the region’s most knowledgeable vine growers, a natural talent who could determine the health of her vines or the right time to harvest by sight and touch. Raffaele’s great-grandfather Antonio was its vanguard, moving to the United States in the early 1900s to establish a wine importing company focused on sourcing pure wines from Irpinia to sell in New York.īack home in Montefredane, his son Raffaele was the first Troisi to plant vines, with an eye to local varieties such as Fiano and Coda di Volpe. Winemaker Raffaele Troisi is a vine grower from a generations-long line of passionate family members who dedicated their lives to the fruit of the vine. Since the end of the nineteenth century, the Troisi family of Azienda Agricola Vadiaperti has championed the wines of Irpinia, a historic vine-growing region in southern Italy.
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