2022 Lamoresca Bianco

94 pts
Brilliant Sicilian Vermentino from a cult natural producer.

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Description

The Lamoresca Bianco is made from Vermentino grapes farmed by Filippo and Nancy Rizzo.

Their pristine fruit and lo-fi winemaking techniques produce and wonderfully textural example of the variety.

Vermentino can be neutral at times, sometimes bland or insipid. Not the case here. Wild fermented with a few days on skins and released after a good rest in bottle - it takes Vermentino into delicious new territory.

It's glassy, saline and cut with a nervy acidity. More time in bottle will reveal more levels of detail and flavour, if you can keep your hands off it, that is.

94 points
"It’s gently nutty, saline, honey and chamomile, and more of those things than fruit in a way, though there is a preserved lemon and tangerine thing. It’s tangy, a fine chalky grip to texture, salted pistachio and almond, with a waxy and dusty textured finish. Very nice."
- Gary Walsh (The Wine Front)

94 Points - "Vermentino held on skins for two days. Aged in cement and old wood. Goes through malo. No added sulphur. No fining. No filtering. It’s a bolder expression of Bianco in 2022, delivering quite a bit of rich flavour. It’s gently nutty, saline, honey and chamomile, and more of those things than fruit in a way, though there is a preserved lemon and tangerine thing. It’s tangy, a fine chalky grip to texture, salted pistachio and almond, with a waxy and dusty textured finish. Very nice. I think you either like these wines, or you don’t, though I find most people do, perhaps curiously." - Gary Walsh (The Wine Front)

Lamoresca Bianco is a vermentino wine, rich and round, with a good acidity. A white wine, that will become more impressive after one or two years in bottle

Grape variety: Vermentino 100%
Alcohol: 13,50 %
Source of fruit: Gigliotto Vineyard in the center of Sicily, San Michele di Ganzaria
Altitude: 430m above sea level
Vine density: 4000 plants per hectare
Soil types: clay soil with limestone
Harvest: 4 september
Yield: 20 hectolitres per hectare
Fermentation: in vertical plastic "tini" without temperature control, with maceration on the skin for 2 days
Maturation: in wooden conical trunk vats, malolactic fermentation occurred naturally
Bio certified by Q certificazioni

100% Vermentino (Corso). Spontaneous fermentation with 2 days skin maceration and no temperature control. Aged in cement and old wooden barrel. Natural malolactic fermentation. No added sulfur and no filtering or fining.

Price Bracket $51 to $100
Variety Vermentino
Country Italy
Region Sicily
Feature Natural/Lo-Fi
Organic
Reviewed By The Wine Front
Critic Score 94
Alcohol 13%
Size 750ml
Vintage 2022
Closure Cork

Lamoresca

Lamoresca was built from the ground up by the hands of Filippo and Nancy Rizzo.

The two had a passion for natural wines and growing things organically. After years of spreading the good word of natural wine in retail and hospitality in Belgium, the two moved to Sicily and bought a farm populated with 46 ancient olive trees.

Now their farm, located 50km from the nearest vineyard, produces some of the most compelling, vibrant, and thirst-slaking wines in Sicily.

Their reds are bright, and crunchy and have a real sense of life to them, the white is saline and exotic. These are wines of rare character and great energy. Pure, natural, and fundamentally delicious to the last drop.

Owner Filippo Rizzo Lamoresca

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