Valentina Passalacqua, Project Calcarius Nú Orange (1litre), Puglia, Italy Fortified minimal handling and no punchdowns

minimal handling and no punchdowns

But the final blend also has 10% of skin fermented wine (2-3 weeks on skins in acacia barrels)

the juice is settled for 24 hours before being moved to steel tanks where fermentation starts spontaneously with the natural indigneous yeasts

They are then aged in old barrels and are bottled unfined

savoury tones and a long finish

Valentina Passalacqua, Project Calcarius Nú Orange (1litre), Puglia, Italy Fortified minimal handling and no punchdownsValentina Passalacqua grows indigenous grape varieties on the uncompromising limestone soils of the Gargano national park in Puglia, in the heal of Italy. After several years working the vineyards, alentina decided to isolate some of the plots which have exclusively Kimmeridgian calcareous soils and give very particular and delicious characteristics to the wines. We have three of the resulting Project Calcarius wines, a red, white and orange, in litre