2018 Marisa Cuomo Piedirosso/Aglicanico Furore Rosso Costa d’Amalfi DOC Campania

WSI93+ Fascinating: Dark fruit, candied cherry notes, rhubarb. 50% Piedirosso & 50% Aglianico. Medium-bodied, with ripe cherry and blackberry, licorice notes, and subtle baking spice. Aged 6 months in 2-year-old French oak barriques.
Pair with beef stewed in tomato sauce.

The Amalfi Coast is, together with the French Cote d’Azur, the most famous coast in the world, renowned for its pure natural beauty and tourist attractions. The 40 km stretch is divided into a series of breathtaking sea views under spectacular steep cliffs.
The Marisa Cuomo brand was acquired in 1980 by Andrea Ferraioli who bought it as a gift for his future wife, Marisa Cuomo. And he continued, with the help of Luigi Moio, the greatest wine consultant in southern Italy, to create a series of wonders that have highlighted the exceptional aromas and flavors of the traditional grapes of the area.
To date, Marisa Cuomo’s wines count 130,000 bottles per year and the company is widely recognized by international critics as one of the most prestigious enological realities of Southern Italy.

Marisa Cuomo’s wines are born from 10 hectares of vineyards, a large part of which are planted with pergola on steep vertical rocky terraces placed at 500 meters high, so steep that human intervention is almost impossible.
The climate where Marisa Cuomo’s wines are born is typically Mediterranean, favored by the thermo-regulating action of the sea, which mitigates the excessive heat and caresses the vineyards with the sea breeze. The soils, dolomitic-calcareous, are particularly rich in mineral nutrients and give the wines a sensational flavor and organoleptic richness.