2013 Joaquin 'Piante a Lapio' Campania Fiano, Italy Fribourg The wine macerates on the

The wine macerates on the skins before being pressed

pleasing tannins

The Verrua family--Nadia and her mother Maria Teresa and her father Ottavio--farms the vines organically

Soil: granite mother rock

2013 Joaquin 'Piante a Lapio' Campania Fiano, Italy Fribourg The wine macerates on theRaffaeles Piante a Lapio is truly outside of category. Made from 80 to 100 year old Fiano planted in Lapios high altitude volcanic soils, it is fermented spontaneously in casks of chestnut and acacia from local forests, and aged in those same vessels for nearly five years with no topping up. Incredibly, it develops a yeast veil just as a Jura wine would, although Piante a Lapio is marked notably less by veil derived elements than a Jura Savagnin. This