Costa d'Amalfi DOC Bianco 2024 (750 ml.) Marisa Cuomo

THE WINE

The Costa d'Amalfi Bianco by Marisa Cuomo is born among vines and cliffs overlooking the sea of Furore. It is characterized by a straw-yellow color with an elegant aroma of acacia, lemon balm, and aromatic herbs, with a finish reminiscent of toasted almond. On the palate, it is appreciated for its balance and lively freshness.

THE COMPANY

It was exactly 1980, the year in which Andrea Ferraioli gifted his future bride the small vineyards he had inherited from his father as a wedding present. This is how the winery “Marisa Cuomo” was born, and with it, a story filled with love, passion, and endless work began, which over thirty years has taken both Andrea Ferraioli and Marisa Cuomo far, reaching the Olympus of the best whites in the world. The winery is located in the municipality of Furore, a small jewel of the Amalfi Coast, and the owned vineyards overlook the splendid Gulf of Salerno, from Ravello to Scala, along the fjords that lead to Amalfi. About ten hectares of vineyards in total, which rise to an average altitude of five hundred meters, climbing the steep slopes overlooking the blue of the Tyrrhenian Sea. The vines, supported by chestnut poles according to the pergola training system, are known as “on the wall,” meaning they grow horizontally from the dry stone walls that Andrea and Marisa have painstakingly built into terraces. With an average age nearing eighty years, all the plants are ungrafted and pre-phylloxera. By cultivating the lesser-known and typical grape varieties of the area such as fenile, piedirosso, ginestra, pepella, ripolo, sciascinoso, tintore, and tronto, Marisa and Andrea manage to give a deep, sincere, and unmistakable imprint to all their labels. Reds, Rosés, or Whites, under the denominations “Furore,” “Ravello,” or “Costa d'Amalfi,” all the wines produced by the Salerno winery are an expression of what is defined as “heroic viticulture,” where more than anything else, the effort of hands and the sweat of the brow matter. The wines of Marisa Cuomo are realized in the flagship label of the company, which for years has seen “Fiorduva” as one of the most prestigious and renowned whites in all of Italy and beyond.

EXTREME WINES: FIORDUVA

Extreme wines are heroic wines, born of effort, sweat, and the industriousness of man; they are produced in often unknown, geographically challenging areas, sometimes impossible, and cultivated in tiny patches of land wrested from the mountains, rocks, and sea.

From Trentino-Alto Adige to Sardinia, from Valle d'Aosta to the island of Pantelleria, from Valtellina to the Amalfi Coast, from the Cinque Terre to the slopes of Etna, ancient Enotria boasts a myriad of grape varieties that have survived wars, plagues, and the scourge of phylloxera.

Grapes that, thanks to the tenacity and passion of some small great winemakers, have been pulled from oblivion and that even today can offer connoisseurs of Bacchus extraordinary wines.

Gianpaolo Girardi