| Producer | Joaquin |
| Country | Italy |
| Region | Campania |
| Varietal | Greco, Falanghina, Biancolella |
| Vintage | 2021 |
| Sku | 1151727 |
| Size | 750ml |
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Tasting Notes: The glamorous highly touristic island of Capri, just off the Amalfi Coast, is home to a mere 20 hectares of vines, where Joaquin winemaker Raffaele Pagano owns a 0.8-hectare parcel of co-planted Greco, Falanghina, and Biancolella, from which he produces only about 1,200 bottles per vintage. Joaquin Dall’Isola (“Joaquin from the Island”) expresses Capri’s wind-buffeted limestone-rich terroir through Raffaele’s highly personal lens, as he co-ferments his varieties and allows them to macerate on their skins for five days before a six-month stint on the lees in non-thermoregulated stainless steel. Rich but not unctuous, mineral-saturated but not austere, this wine vividly evokes the sea in its whomping saltiness, yet possesses a sense of caressing serenity at its core.
Estate History: Since his start in the early 2000s, Raffaele Pagano has become a Campanian wine maverick. Producing 18,000 bottles annually with a profound devotion to preserving the land, Raffaele nurtures his extraordinarily old plant material, creating wines of incomparable depth. Raffaele believes in minimal technological interference, using very few sulfur additions and abstaining from filtration, outside yeasts, temperature control, new oak, and avoids chemicals in the vineyards at all costs.
Joaquin encompasses three and a half hectares in Irpinia and Capri. Many of his Fiano and Aglianico vines in Lapio and Paternopoli approach 100 - 200 years of age. He has also co-planted Greco, Falanghina, and Biancolella on Capri off the Amalfi Coast within an 0.8-hectare parcel, where only 20 hectares of vines exist in total. Joaquin was named after the French-Spanish Bourbon dynasty which pioneered Campania’s gastronomic viticultural life in the pre-unification era.
