Della Staffa “Arancio” 2021

Trebbiano

21 days on skin contact, aged in Fiberglass; Organic, minimal intervention, unfiltered, zero sulphur

Umbria, Magione, ITA

Trebbiano is really a magical grape when it is given some skin contact, it turns from something neutral, fresh, to something wild and untamed. Licked with caramel, blood orange and turkish delight - swimming in spring florals and a hint of broken terracotta. Polite and free all at once, like a wink at a party - a good entry point for those who are wriggling their way into skin contact wine and certainly a representation of the beauty of Umbria’s wine making potential. Della Staffa has been one of our favourite wineries we import for years and years, loved by the bistros and sippers of Sydney. For more than 200 years from the 1700s, Conestabile della Staffa produced some of the finest wines in the region but with two world wars came a diminished farming workforce and from 1956, the estate ceased to make anything, forcing the vineyard to sell off their grapes each year. Then a former student of architecture and one-time Umbrian wine-seller, Danilo Marcucci turned to natural winemaking in the early 2000s after discovering first-hand what the chemicals in industrially produced wines can do to the body.