Country: Italy
Region: Puglia
Grape: Bombino Bianco
Viticulture: Organic Farming / Natural Wine
Vinification: 4 day skin maceration. Bottle before primary fermentation finishes in the pet nat style.
Small fine bubbles, lots of spice and clementines, plenty of citrus and minerality.
Made by Valentina Passalaqua, the natural wine legend of Puglia. She farms about 60 hectares of organic vines in the Gargano National Park. She changed her life as a lawyer in 2008 when she decided to reconnect to the land that she came from. Now makes a wonderful range of natural wines. The Calcarius range comes from a plot of vines that all shared the same Kimmeridgean Calcarius soils creating wines with amazing minerality and sense of place.