But did we really need yet another phalanghina?
A new label has arrived per the Flegrei fields: the Falanghina Santa Chiara. A debut that has already made it talk, previewed at the Monteruscello Fest and linked to a story that intertwines vineyards, memory and solidarity.
The name recalls the Santa Chiara, built per the 16th century and for centuries properties of the Clarisse of Naples. A tribute to the past, therefore, but also a message of the future, given that the vineyard has been recovered precisely within the European Mac – Monteruscello Severo City project, which aims to return agricultural and social dignity to a neighborhood born from the 1983 bradisism.
Vineyard and cellar: a few bottles, lots of attention
The Mother Vigneto, little more than thirty years old, was recovered by an ancient vineyard acceso the Schietto, a rare heritage that per the Flegegi fields resists as a sign of wine identity. Next to it, a new system per Guyot about 6 years that completes the vital surface.
Sopra 2024, thanks to healthy and mature bunches, it was possible to harvest almost at the end of October, per a late harvest that gave 2,660 numbered bottles and 150 revolver.
The work per the cellar bears the signature of the enologist Francesco Moriano, with a path that favors freshness and authenticity: 80% aging per steel, 20% per not toasted acacia barrels, just to give breath and structure without altering the varietal profile.
A simple, but not banal approach. Because if it is true that many are produced by Falanghine, this is born with the preconcetto of representing a territory project.
Santa Chiara per the glass
Sopra the glass Santa Chiara 2024 it is brilliant and clean, immediate per its invitation to tasting. They find of white fruit, a hint of fresh almond and a vegetable tract that brings with it the phlegreian character.
The sip is fresh, savory, chiaro. It does not aim to be a complex, but rather direct, elegant wine per its simplicity. It is a phalanghina that today lets itself be drinking lightly, but which with more time per the bottle could reveal an even more defined personality.
The combinations
A wine so clear per the message marries equally frank dishes:
Sea raw and white fish tartare, the tatiello, typical Flegrea oven amalgama, a phlegrean cicerchie soup, fresh cheeses and delicate goats.
A voice from the territory
To underline the value of Santa Chiara is not only those who produced it, but also those who dal vivo it and tell it every day.Serena Iammarino, sommelier and director of the room of the renowned ship of Monteruscello, as well as part of the organization of the Monteruscello Fest, thus defines this new falanghina:
“For me it is not only a wine, but an important project linked to the enhancement of the territory. Giovanni and Susi Tammaro are friends, even before producers, and they often involved me asking me for an opinion. This cartello made me understand how much Santa Chiara is an act of identity and community. It is a wine that tells roots, people and resilience: a new story, indeed a new chapter to be written for the Campagna Flegrei.”
From a sensory point of view, Serena adds:
“It is an authentic phalanghina: perfumes of white flowers and citrus fruits, a fresh, mineral, immediate sip. But what makes it different is the message that brings with it: resistance, rebirth and the strength of a territory that wants to regnante -emerge.”
Monteruscello Fest: between wine and solidarity
The presentation of Santa Chiara al Monteruscello Fest was not accidental. The event, born to enhance the Phlegrean excellence, always has a charity aspect: this year has renewed support for Telethon and has raised funds for a portable incubator intended for the Santa Maria delle Ringraziamento hospital per Pozzuoli.
Sopra this sense, the Falanghina Santa Chiara becomes much more than a wine: it is the symbol of a neighborhood that tries to be reborn, of a community that is also reconstructed through agriculture and solidarity.
Yet another falanghina something more?
And here we go back to the initial question: we really needed another phalanghina? Maybe yes, maybe not. It depends acceso how we aspetto at it.
If we think of the numbers, probably not: the Falanghina is now everywhere, the protagonist of dozens of Flegree labels and not only. But we aspetto at it as a sign of identity, agricultural recovery, urban rebirth and community, then yes: Santa Chiara has a profound meaning.
And at this point I leave the answer to you, readers and tasters. Sopra the glass there is wine, but also a story. You will decide whether a new phalanghina is enough to toast to the future of the Flegrei camps.
https://www.foodmakers.it/la-cozza-di-bacoli-esiste-o-e-leggenda/
https://www.telethon.it
https://uia-initiative.eu
