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Marco Tinessa Ognostro Rosso 2021

Ognostro

Marco Tinessa Ognostro Rosso 2021

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Castelfranci and Montemarano / Campania // Italy

Ognostro is local Neapolitan slang for wine and literally means “ink”.

Aglianico is a grape variety that ripens very late – making it dark as ink. Marco consistently works with low yields to obtain ripe fruit. After harvest, the grapes are cooled for 1 to 2 days, de-stemmed and vinified in a stainless steel tank without any additives.  The wine is never stored in barrel as Marco believe that oak does not suits Aglianico.

Soulful, zen-like and pure, this balances plush and black/red fruit with mystical layers of concentration and finesse. Aglianico at its most pure and unadorned.
Marco Tinessa grows Aglianico in low yields, somehow he is able to harvest later than most bringing out the ripeness of the grape without losing its characteristic integrated acidity. 
About the Producer

Whilst everyone is instagramming wines from Frank Cornelissen, take a sneaky punt over here. 

Marco Tinessa’s story is not your average Italian winemaking story. He has no family vineyards nor centuries-old roots. A bank manager in Milan, this project grew out of his obsession with natural wine and passion for the Taurasi region in Campania.

Marco and Frank forged a friendship in Sicily before the he set up the Ognostro label in Campania. Ognostro came to be when he bought a single vineyard of Aglianico near Montemarano. With the help of his mentor and friend, the iconic Frank Cornelissen, whose eponymous winery in Sicily has become a standard bearer for Italian natural wines, Marco decided on two grapes, aglianico for a red and fiano for a white. Just like his mentor, Marco prefers fermentation in clay amphorae or high-density polyethylene tubs as they “prevent any influence on the wine and the terroir”.

A biological philosopher in the vineyard, Marco harvests very low yields and takes an all around hands-off approach to winemaking. The wines are extremely limited in production, and have become cult favorites over the years. In addition to his spectacular Ognostro Rosso, Marco today produces a rich and textural Fiano, a fresh and vibrant Falanghina, and an entry level Aglianico.

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