Sannio. Beyond falanghina, two rare wines made from camaiola and piedirosso

It is undoubtedly one of the forges of wine in Campania. We are talking about Sannio, the area enclosed between the two mountain massifs of Taburno and Matese, where the flagship of production is the falanghina. But here, too, there is no shortage of surprises: this is where today's two rare wines come from, two labels made from native grapes of great pleasure and drinkability.

The first is made from camaiola grapes, another name for Barbera del Sannio (which has nothing to do with the Piemonte variety), grown near Benevento by the Monserrato 1973 winery. The Barbera del Sannio '21 is a small production, just over 3,000 bottles, from a small plot of land owned by the company.

For the second wine, we continue in the same area, but we change the grape variety: it is in fact the Piedirosso that gives life to the Sannio Sant'Agata dei Goti Piedirosso Artus '19, an amphora-aged wine whose grapes come from a very small plot planted among rows of Falanghina. Few bottles, but lots of substance. As a rare wine should be.