From grapes of Piedirosso, Aglianico and Sciascinoso has life Gragnano DOC Sorrento Peninsula
In 1994 he conquers the Denominazione di Origine Controllata “Sorrentine Peninsula” because of its peculiar characteristics: sparkling and evanescent froth; more or less intense ruby color; vinous, intense and fruity; sparkling, fruity, medium-bodied, distinctly tangy, soft, sometimes with sweet vein. Gragnano is a wine you really like women and older people for its fresh and lively taste and aroma reminiscent of fermenting must. This wine goes well with pizza – particularly that of Naples, marinara, margherita and sausage and broccoli – and panuozzo, to pasta, rice sartù, the smoked cheese, salami of Naples, the taralli lard and pepper, as well as all the typical dishes of the Neapolitan tradition.
The main grapes that contribute to the production of Gragnano are Piedirosso, Aglianico and Sciascinoso. The latter, locally called Olivella, is the variety that gives the characteristic red froth.
Gragnano is a wine of ancient origins: it was mentioned by great writers such as Pliny, Galen and Columella. Gioacchino Murat, when he became king of Naples in 1808, he brought agronomists from France to implant screws similar to those in France and from that moment began the rise of Gragnano. This wine was praised by famous journalists such as Mario Soldati, who wrote: “At last the Gragnano, a little wine, but unsurpassed.” The painter Giacinto Gigante so described it: “The Gragnano wine, par excellence gave the name to all the wines of Naples, so that was enough to tell Gragnano to mean a fragrant wine, clear, sweet, word that means sweet and vine, not artificial . Gragnano that the wine should greatly pregiare, because it is the garnet-colored, clear, fragrant and you might as drinking bowls without returning home drunk, that there was no winery in Naples where there is found the Gragnano. ” This description is to be shared in full except for the color in a young wine like Gragnano ranging from purple to ruby. In the famous film Totò “Poverty and Nobility” is a cheerful duet between Don Pasquale and Don Felix: “I do give two liters of sparkling Gragnano Gragnano and make sure it is! I’ll pay you, you taste it and if it is Gragnano him raise it, or else … desist “. A saying back in 1600: “You live vis sanus Graniani pocula bibe” that is, “if you want to live healthy drink a little ‘di Gragnano.”
