Quintodecimo Irpinia Aglianico Terra d'Eclano 2023 REDBURGUNDYROUNDUP The dry white from Château

The dry white from Château d'Yquem

then drained and finished bone dry — closer in spirit to an Italian cerasuolo than to a pale Provençal pink

and plum skin layer with rooibos

fleshy character

which ages even more gracefully and is built for the table

Quintodecimo Irpinia Aglianico Terra d'Eclano 2023 REDBURGUNDYROUNDUP The dry white from ChâteauLuigi Moio literally wrote the book on wine aroma he's a professor of enology in Naples with a couple hundred scientific papers to his name and in 2001 he and his wife Laura went and put all that theory to work on a hill in Mirabella Eclano. Quintodecimo is the result, and it changed what people expected from Campanian reds. Terra d'Eclano is Aglianico from five plots, fermented in steel and aged in French barriques, and it's the bottle that shows