2015 Domaine U Stiliccionu “Damianu”The vineyard was planted in 1961, and is located 8 km from Porto Pollo in the town of Serra di Ferro, just behind Antoine Arenas Carco from Patrimonio. Planted on granite and shale soil and facing east, it has full sun exposure from dawn till dusk. The original proprietor Francois Casabianca was anxious to perpetuate the winemaking traditions of his family, so in April 2005 he decided to hand over the reins of the estate to his grandson, Sebastien

who eventually pushed him to head out on his own

warm weather settled in early June and lasted through the summer

The style chez Le Viking (as he refers to himself with only a small degree of irony) is called sec tendre

when he was just in his early 20s

ELEVAGE: After maceration

Nine Oaks uses only organically grown estate fruit to craft natural wines made from spontaneous fermenting native yeast

Francesca and Isidoro

Since 1987 the family has been making a certain percentage of the wines for their vintage cuvee champagnes in barrel

was killed by Nazi soldiers after being caught trying to blow up some train tracks

High elevation vineyards are a unique factor to the Vajra wines

They look for a strong acid structure rather than alcohol as a preservative and therefore

and capacity to age