IL TERRAZZO features wines that encapsulate everything we love about summer drinking. Delicate and perfumed, they offer plenty of complexity and finesse and are perfect alongside the beautiful ingredients that fill the markets at this time of year.
LA GRAPPERIE
Premières Tries 2023
Loire, France
This new cuvée comes from the first pick of each of Renaud’s parcels of Chenin Blanc and therefore includes vines both young and old. The grapes were pressed directly and moved to old barrels for fifteen months of élevage and here a cooler vintage has rendered a pale, delicate and nuanced expression of the grape that is incredibly compelling in its youth.
Chenin Blanc
ALEX DELLA VECCHIA
Pedecastello Bianco 2023
Veneto, Italy
This is made up of equal parts of local variety Bianchetta and a mix of around a dozen hybrids which Alex planted together some six hundred metres above sea level. The grapes were pressed to tank to rest until the following spring, making for a wine of great freshness that reminds us of the honey, flowers and pure spring water of its alpine home.
Bianchetta, Hybrid Varieties
CANTINA GIARDINO
NA 2023
Campania, Italy
This excellent amber wine is a blend dominated by Falanghina from Benevento and Coda di Volpe from their vineyards in Montemarano, with a touch of Fiano and Greco in the mix. Each spent four days on skins before being pressed off and blended for eight months of rest in concrete. This really impresses with gentle mineral notes and stone fruits framed by just the right amount of tannin and a clean, salty finish. A great introduction to the house style.
Falanghina, Coda di Volpe, Fiano, Greco
GRÉGORY GUILLAUME
L’Épicurien 2023
Ardèche, France
The grapes here come from a beautiful, remote plot of forty year old Grenache Noir. This saw a week of carbonic maceration before being pressed off to rest in cuve for just under a year. Luminous in the glass, this charming expression of the grape displays a wonderful purity of fruit, whilst a pleasant herbaceous note adds a lift and intrigue.
Grenache
LA PETITE SOEUR
Globule Rouge 2023
Loire, France
Cabernet Franc from fifty five year old vines planted over schist. The grapes were fermented as whole bunches for eleven days, before being pressed to cuve until the following spring. A cooler vintage has produced a lighter, brighter wine that pairs vibrant, brambly fruit with a touch of earth and spice.
Cabernet Franc
DOMAINE DE KALATHAS
To Kokkinaki 2021
Cyclades, Greece
This ‘little red’ is a blend of Mavro Potamisi, Koumariano and Kondoura from old bush vines. A true field blend, the grapes are harvested together, crushed gently by foot and pressed to vat for a year’s rest. This displays an incredible purity of fruit, with a pleasant blood-orange like bitterness, woody herbs and an intense, stony minerality. A wine of uncommon purity that offers boundless opportunity at the table.
Rozaki, Aspro Potamisi, Mavro Potamisi