Villa Dora, Caprettone, 2024 so052925 pato family wines tar and dried rose

tar and dried rose

where cooler temps help preserve brightness

powerful Barolos

Grown on deep chalk and vinified with the same conviction Chartogne brings to everything

and today Céline and Jérôme run it organically

Villa Dora, Caprettone, 2024 so052925 pato family wines tar and dried roseCaprettone was only recognized as a distinct grape variety in 2014 for generations it grew tangled up with Coda di Volpe on the slopes of Vesuvius and nearly everyone assumed the two were the same thing. They are not, and this varietal bottling makes the case. Villa Dora farms organically on the lower southern flank of the volcano at Terzigno, inside the national park, on ground that is essentially pulverized pumice, ash and lapilli; because