Cantina dell'Angelo is a small Greco di Tufo estate in the village of Tufo in Irpinia, Campania, where Angelo Muto farms five hectares of vineyards planted directly above the abandoned sulphur mines that gave the village its DOCG. The Muto family has worked these slopes for three generations, and Angelo's first estate-bottled vintage in 2008 turned the holding into one of the most distinctive single-varietal Greco producers in Campania.
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Cellar tastings at Cantina dell'Angelo are arranged directly with Angelo Muto. Sessions cover the estate's Greco di Tufo and Coda di Volpe lineup against the backdrop of the vineyards above the old sulphur mines of Tufo. Booking is by phone or email only.
EnquireCellar tastings at Cantina dell'Angelo are arranged directly with Angelo Muto. Sessions cover the estate's Greco di Tufo and Coda di Volpe lineup against the backdrop of the vineyards above the old sulphur mines of Tufo. Booking is by phone or email only.
EnquireThe five hectares of Greco that Angelo Muto farms sit in the Campanaro contrada of Tufo, on a steep, high-altitude slope directly above the village's abandoned sulphur mines. The mines closed in the 1980s, but their legacy is still in the soil: yellow striations of elemental sulphur thread through clay, limestone, chalk and quartz on top of a bedrock of volcanic tufo. That sulphur signature is the stylistic fingerprint of every wine that leaves the cellar. Angelo is the third generation of the Muto family to work these vineyards, but the first to estate-bottle. He took over winemaking in 2006, sold fruit during the 2006 and 2007 vintages, then bottled under his own label from the 2008 harvest onwards. Total production has settled at around 20,000 bottles a year, made with the help of consulting enologist Luigi Sarno, who is also behind Cantina del Barone in nearby Cesinali. The slope is too steep for any mechanisation, so the entire vineyard is worked by hand. Angelo refuses herbicides and pesticides on principle, a low-impact approach he describes as natural viticulture before the term existed. Indigenous yeasts carry out fermentation, the wines age on the lees in stainless steel, and only a light filtration is applied before bottling. The cellar makes three wines, all single-varietal. Torrefavale is the entry-level Greco di Tufo DOCG, fresh and salted. Miniere is the Riserva, a longer-aged expression named for the sulphur mines beneath the vines that earned a Tre Bicchieri from Gambero Rosso for the 2016 vintage. A small bottling of Coda di Volpe (under the del Nonno label) honours the older generation of the family. Greco di Tufo is the smallest of Campania's four DOCGs and one of the most ancient white wines of southern Italy, brought to the area by Greek settlers in antiquity. Angelo's bottlings are some of the most uncompromising in the appellation: structured, sapid, mineral-driven Greco that tends to drink as much like a red as a white.
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