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Donnachiara

Donnachiara is but one of the many fine wine estates that sprung up in Campania at the beginning of the 21st century. Founded in 2005 by Chiara and Umberto Petitto, and run today with the help of their energetic daughter Ilaria, who passed on a law career in order to live in contact with nature, the estate farms roughly 27 hectares and produces the full range of Campania’s most typical wines. The whites are clean and fresh if a little less complex than the best in their respective categories, while the reds are flinty and powerful but never over the top. In my experience, the estate performs best with a different variety nearly every vintage so it’s hard to say which wine is Donnachiara's finest. But their two best bottlings recently have been their new late-harvest Fiano Esoterico and Greco Ostinato - dry, luscious, highly complex wines that have more in common with great Alsace whites than they do with anything made in Campania (or elsewhere in Italy, for that matter).

From Campania: Made in Italy (Sep 2015) by Ian D'Agata

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2014 Falanghina (Beneventano)

Release Price: $16

Color: White

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