Perillo, Taurasi DOCG

This powerful red from Campania, in southern Italy, is presented by SommSelect Editorial Director David Lynch. Find a place in your cellar for a few bottles of this: you'll be very glad you did!We’ve received quite a few requests lately for more wines from Southern Italy among our daily offers. Yes, we’ve covered Sicily—and especially Mount Etna—pretty thoroughly, but one of the things I’ve been keen on doing since joining SommSelect is take a deeper dive into Taurasi. The Taurasi appellation is in central Campania, a solid hour east of Naples, where the landscape rises toward the Apennine mountains that form the spine of the Italian peninsula. Historically, this has been the most important red wine appellation in all of southern Italy, nicknamed “The Barolo of the South” for the longevity of its wines, which are crafted predominantly from the native Aglianico grape. I’ve argued in this space that Aglianico is Italy’s third “noble” grape variety, following Nebbiolo and Sangiovese, and