Which wines to drink in summer? The authoritative Washington Post selects five from all over the world, and two of these are Italian: Terre de la Custodia's Grechetto Colli Martani 2018 and Le Origini's Falanghina Beneventano 2018.
In the weekly column hosted in the authoritative newspaper of the US capital, Dave McIntyre, food and wine critic and co-founder of the "Drink Local Wine" information site, open to the discovery of wines from all over the world, reports "five delicious wines at affordable prices" less than $20. McIntyre writes: “if you haven't yet discovered the extraordinary variety of Italian white wines, start with this electrifying grechetto and an elegant falanghina”.
About Terre de la Custodia's Grechetto Colli Martani 2018, McIntyre specifies: "This delicious white wine has aromas and flavors of white flowers and toasted hazelnuts". The added value is a “general feeling of minerality”, “as if you were savoring pure spring water gushing from the stones”. The Washington Post critic concludes: “Really, a delicious wine. Enjoy it with seafood or even on its own."
Together with the Grechetto Colli Martani, Dave McIntyre also mentions the Falanghina Beneventano 2018 Le Origini produced by Delta Vini, a 100% Falanghina, Guyot training system, aged in steel tanks, light straw yellow in color with greenish reflections with a fresh scent and fruity with marked notes of citrus and white flowers, ideal as an aperitif and for combinations in particular with dishes based on shellfish and seafood.
“The appreciation of overseas experts is a source of great pride for us”, assures Giampaolo Farchioni, manager of the company. “We are delighted to be ambassadors of Italian taste in the world: bringing to America an Italian product, coming from the family vineyards, fills us with satisfaction and confirms that this small but wonderful land that is Umbria is capable of offering extraordinary products, capable to seduce even the most refined palates on a global level”.
Farchioni concludes: “For us, this is a push to do better and better: it is no coincidence that we have focused a lot on Grechetto. A grape that we like very much, which represents our land well and which we now also offer in a special cru, thanks to the advice of the oenologist Pierpaolo Chiasso, under the supervision of Riccardo Cotarella”.
Just the Grechetto will be - together with the Sagrantino - one of the protagonists of the tasting, reserved for journalists and bloggers, which Terre de la Custodia will organize on the evening of 14 July next in the suggestive location of the Villa dei Cesari, in via Ardeatina in Rome.
Alongside Grechetto and Falanghina, the Washington Post also reports Alyssa Red Blend 2019 and Miss Anaïs Chardonnay Viognier 2019, two bottles from an alliance of cooperative wineries in the Languedoc region of France, and Domaine de l'Hémonière Sauvignon Touraine 2019, version ripe than a Sauvignon blanc from the Loire.
