Wines

Alberata aversana (Asprinio vines trained on poplars)

Alberata aversana (asprinio): white wine from vines that climb the poplars

On the plain between Naples and Caserta, asprinio vines climb poplars past ten metres and are harvested from a narrow ladder, the scalillo, the bunches lowered to the ground in a wicker fescina. The result is a white wine with natural acidity; a Slow Food Presidium protects the few alberate left, down from some 16,000 hectares in the 1960s to under two hundred.

• Asprinio grapes in long, conical bunches, with a tart streak that shapes the wine
• Straw yellow in the glass; intense and fruity on the nose, crisp and dry to taste
• Also made as a sparkling wine from asprinio alone, with fine, lasting bubbles

How to enjoy it. A wine for the sea: seafood salads, raw shellfish above all, mixed fried seafood and crustaceans. Aversa tradition also pours it with local prosciutto and mozzarella.

Production areas

Campania

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