2022 Cataldo Calabretta Ansonica Calabria IGT

Ansonica is aka Inzolia- it is considered native to Sicily (maybe Tuscany? The debate will live on),  The wine has 24hr skin contact, making it closer to orange and more characterful than most Inzolia coming from Sicily, and counterintuitively, a little more saline than the Sicilian versions.

Cataldo is all organic in the vineyards. He uses a mix of temp control stainless steel and cement tanks which are naturally insulating due to the thick stone walls. The wines are unfined and unfiltered with minimal sulfur at bottling. Another fine example of natural wine. The vineyards are mostly in the more inland colline (hills) of the Ciro’ appellation, with limestone clay soils.