• Villa Matilde Falerno del Massico Rosso 2018
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Villa Matilde Campania

Villa Matilde

Villa Matilde Falerno del Massico Rosso 2018

Red still

  • Villa Matilde Falerno del Massico Rosso 2018
  • Villa Matilde Falerno del Massico Rosso 2018
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Villa Matilde Campania
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Denomination Falerno del Massico DOC
Size 0,75 l
Alcohol content 14.0% by volume
Area Campania (Italy)
Grape varieties 80% Aglianico, 20% Piedirosso
Aging Half of the wine matures in one-third new Allier oak barriques, and the other half in the traditional 10- to 35hl large Slavonian oak casks, for a period of 10-12 months, followed by ageing in the bottle.
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Description

“Nec cellis ideo contende Falernis", wrote Virgil in his Georgics: "Don’t try to outdo Falernum". This most famous wine in literature and history is a blend of aglianico and piedirosso; the clusters are carefully quality-selected from the hillside vineyards on the San Castrese estate growing on the slopes of the extinct Roccamonfina volcano, in the province of Caserta.

Awards

  • 2018

    91

    /100

    James Suckling is an influential American wine critic and journalist who worked at Wine Spectator for 30 years. He left the magazine in 2010 to start his own website and guidebook (JamesSuckling.com). He specialises in Italian and Bordeaux wines.

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Perfume

Perfume

Its intense, rich bouquet is brimming with fragrant sweet violets, wild black berryfruit, cherry, blackberry, and raspberry.

Color

Color

Ruby red.

Taste

Taste

The palate is full-volumed, elegant, and finely balanced in all its components.

Serve at:

16 - 18 °C.

Longevity:

10 - 15 years

Decanting time:

1 hour

Full Bodied and Very Aged Red Wines

Producer
Villa Matilde
From this winery
  • Start up year: 1965
  • Oenologist: Fabio Gennarelli, Riccardo Cotarella
  • Bottles produced: 700.000
  • Hectares: 125
The story of Villa Matilde Avallone began in the 1960s with Francesco Paolo Avallone, a lawyer and passionate connoisseur of ancient wines, who, intrigued by Pliny's stories and the verses of Virgil, Martial and Horace on Vinum Falernum, decided to bring the legendary wine that had disappeared at the beginning of the last century back to life. Assisted by a group of friends, including some professors from the Faculty of Agriculture at the University of Naples, he identified, after years of study, the vines that had given life to Falernum wine in Roman times. A few vines that had miraculously survived the devastation of phylloxera at the end of the 19th century were replanted, with the help of a few local farmers, in the Massico area where they had once thrived, and he founded Villa Matilde Avallone.

Today, the company is run by Francesco Paolo's children, Maria Ida and Salvatore Avallone, with exclusive dedication to continuing their father's dream and project, taking up the important inheritance and looking even further. From the Ager Falernus, they have gone as far as the province of Avellino with new vineyards, new projects and wines that tell of the strong identity of Campania Felix. In 2004, Villa Matilde opened the Pietrafusa Estates in the Irpinia DOCG region, in the province of Avellino, starting the production of new wines. Read more
Production area: Campania
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Name Villa Matilde Falerno del Massico Rosso 2018
Type Red still
Denomination Falerno del Massico DOC
Vintage 2018
Size 0,75 l
Alcohol content 14.0% by volume
Grape varieties 80% Aglianico, 20% Piedirosso
Country Italy
Region Campania
Vendor Villa Matilde
Origin Cellole (CE).
Climate Altitude. 140 m. a.s.l.
Soil composition Volcanic, with abundant phosphorus, potassium, and microelements.
Cultivation system Guyot, with about 6 buds per vine.
Plants per hectare 5,000-7,000
Yield per hectare Around 6,000kg/h
Harvest Aglianico: Third 10 days of October. Piedirosso: Second 10 days of October.
Wine making After de-stemming and pressing, the must ferments on the skins at 25-26° for about 20-25 days, with daily pumpover and délestages. Malolactic fermentation follows.
Aging Half of the wine matures in one-third new Allier oak barriques, and the other half in the traditional 10- to 35hl large Slavonian oak casks, for a period of 10 2 months, followed by ageing in the bottle.
Year production 130000 bottles
Allergens Contains sulphites