With deep roots and nearly 150 years of winemaking history, southern Italy’s Mastroberardino family helped put Campania’s Taurasi region on the map. They lobbied for and achieved Taurasi’s appellation status in 1970, garnering its nickname, “Barolo of the South,” along the way. And now they’ve garnered Wine Spectator’s No. 5 Wine of the Year honor for the Mastroberardino Taurasi Radici Riserva 2016.
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Wine of the Year honor for the master bardino terasi radesi Reserva 2016 10th Generation vitner Pi MRA barino’s great-grandfather officially founded the Family Winery in 1878 with the 2016 Rach serva Master berardino working with wine maker masimo derenzo FS he’s returned to what he calls the wine making of my
Father including a relatively short mation period of 8 to 9 days at low temperatures and vinification in stainless steel tanks this shorter masturation period promotes a softer extraction from the deeply colored and highly tanic Alano grape from which the wine is made and extended aging results in a more elegant overall expression
With 60 to 70% of the wine AG in leonian Oak cast for about 30 months and the remainder in second and third passage French BS after baral aging and blending the wine is aged in bottle for an additional 3 plus years firm focused and fragrant the master bardino terasi rachi
Reserva 2016 is wine Spectators number five wine of the Year