2025 Casa d'Ambra Falanghina Ischia Campania

Falanghina is the great workhorse of Campania, and in the hands of Ischia’s most historic house it is a workhorse with manners. Casa d’Ambra picks it in small crates in the second ten days of October, presses gently, ferments cool and gives it a short rest in steel, nothing more. In the glass, it pours a pale straw with green glints. The nose is intense and floral: hawthorn and linden blossom, white peach, a squeeze of citrus. On the palate, it is dry and poised between softness and freshness, light on its feet at 12%, closing on a clean, saline, mineral note. At $13.99 this is the fritto misto wine, the clams wine, the Tuesday wine. Buy it by the case for the next year of weeknights.