Wenlock Cellars
Castel Serranova Fiano, Salento IGP 2024
Castel Serranova Fiano, Salento IGP 2024
Couldn't load pickup availability
An exciting addition to our range from Puglia - offering elegant white flower notes alongside a savoury and well structured palate. Excellent typicity for a wine at this price.
Production
The Fiano grapes are sourced from a 5 hectare vineyard with limestone-clay soils in the Carovigno area, near Tenuta Castel Serranova. They are hand-harvested in the first half of September, de-stemmed and pressed with a short pre-fermentative cryomaceration. Then they undergo temperature-controlled fermentation in stainless-steel for 20 days. The wine stays in stainless steel, on fine lees, for 4 months before bottling.
Tasting notes
Aromas of white flowers, tropical fruit and citrus. The palate is fresh, bright and well-structured with pear and apricot characters balanced by lightly savoury notes.
Food match
Chicken Apulia pasta or stuffed aubergine
-
ABV
12.5%
-
Bottle Size
75cl
-
Region/Country
Puglia, Italy
-
Grape
Fiano 100%
-
Features
Vegetarian, Vegan
-
Closure
Cork
-
Winemaker
Marco Mascellani
-
Appellation
Salento IGP
-
Allergen info
Contains sulphites and no other allergens
Meet the Producer
Founded in 1935, this well-established family winery is one of the original quality producers of the Salento peninsula. Of the family's 600 hectares of land spread over three estates, vineyards cover 170 hectares, whilst the rest is planted with a plethora of other agricultural crops, including some of the oldest olive groves in the country.
Sisters Vittoria and Maria Teresa, along with Francesco, Vallone own and run the estate - which was established by Vittoria and Maria Teresa's grandfather. They are supported by winemaker Dr. Graziana Grassini, a consultant with a degree in oenology from the University of Pisa, who works with some of the most prestigious family-owned wineries in Italy. The Vallone sisters produce wines consistently rated amongst the best in Puglia.
Agricole Vallone has two different winemaking facilities, each with the most advanced, up-to-date equipment. The Flaminio estate, near Brindisi, houses the cellar where all the wines are vinified, while the Copertino cellar, in the province of Lecce, carries out the process of maturation in oak, using both large botti and small French oak barrels. Their Tenuta Serranova estate lies up the coast from Brindisi.
A traditional company from sunny and vibrant southern Italy, the core of production centres around indigenous grape varieties, including Negroamaro, Susumaniello and Primitivo (for black grapes) and Fiano and Falanghina (for white).
A Note on Sustainability
Although not formally certified, Vallone farms some parcels of its vines in an organic manner.
