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Scottish-Italian family launch country’s first organic Lazio Maturano wine in Edinburgh
Wine lovers in Edinburgh will be the first to add a new Scots-made Lazio Maturano to their Christmas wish list this season.The Di Ciacca family from East Lothian has returned to its Italian roots to release I Ciacca Nostalgia IGT Lazio Maturano (2017), which is the first time that Maturano wine will be commercially available in the UK.As an ideal match for the Christmas feast, I Ciacca Nostalgia is now available to purchase from Edinburgh’s Valvona & Crolla and the St Andrews Wine Company. Nostalgia is a lively, golden-coloured and medium bodied dry white with notes of orange blossom and grapefruit, as well as an interesting minerality.The Di Ciacca family is working with ‘one of the world’s top five winemakers’ (Decanter) and enologist, Alberto Antonini, to produce its new range of speciality organic wines made from their own Maturano grapes. Maturano is a unique, indigenous and ancient variety from Picinisco in Lazio, almost lost and only recently brought back into commercial cultivation. The four-hectare I Ciacca vineyard had been abandoned for 50 years before the Di Ciacca family reclaimed the land and replanted. The Maturano grapes have been grown naturally and treated as biological without the addition of yeasts. Sofia Di Ciacca of I Ciacca said: “We’re delighted to launch our first ever vintage from I Ciacca and introduce the wonderful Maturano grape to wine-lovers in the Scotland.”Nostalgia reflects the magic of Picinisco with its stunning views, sunshine and wonderful soil and is a fitting tribute to our ancestors from I Ciacca who made the very first wines with the Maturano grape here over a century ago.”The Scottish-Italian family is also getting set to make Picinisco, Va