Sunday, June 6, 2010

#195 Piedirosso

Wiki:
Lacryma Christi, (also Lachryma Christi, literally "tear of Christ"), is the name of a celebrated Neapolitan type of wine produced on the slopes of Mount Vesuvius in CampaniaItaly.
The name Lacryma Christi comes from an old myth that Christ, crying over Lucifer's fall from heaven, cried his tears on the land and gave divine inspiration to the vines that grew there. The sides of Vesuvius are deeply scarred by past lava flows, and its lower slopes are extremely fertile, dotted with villages and covered with vineyards.
Piedirosso is the varietal in this very nice wine.  This one is a bit of a u-turn from the night's first wine.  This red is loaded with dry minerality.  I have now had a number of excellent wines coming from this area and using grapes which have been grown on the side of Vesuvius.  Volcanic terroir really does the trick for me and I think that these are some of the most interesting wines in a country with perhaps the greatest variety of wine styles in the world.

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