2015 La Sibilla Falanghina Campi Flegrei

Praise from Ian D'Agata: "The third and fourth generations of the Di Meo family are propelling this estate into the stratosphere of Italian wine production. Along with wines from Mustilli and Contrada Salandra, there are no better Falanghina bottlings made anywhere than these. Following a stint with world-famous consulting enologist Roberto Cipresso, Vincenzo Di Meo is the winemaker here. The estate vineyards are situated in the particularly sandy Campi Flegrei production zone, which seems especially well suited to Falanghina, of which there are at least three different biotypes: the Flegrea, the Beneventana and an as-yet unnamed third one, which may well be the one grown at La Sibilla. La Sibilla's wines are not only pure, clean and very flavorful but sport relatively low alcohol levels, a direct consequence of the fact that these vines were not grafted onto American rootstock, because the Phylloxera aphid cannot survive in the highly sandy soils of the Campi Flegrei." (08/2015)