Campi Flegrei

Styles

Principal grape varieties

Terroir

• The production area lies within the broad volcanic complex of the Campi Flegrei, whose activity developed following the extensional tectonic phases of the Plio-Quaternary.
• The Campi Flegrei depression is a caldera structure in which more than sixty eruptive centres have been active over the last 39,000 years.
• The caldera structure results from the superimposition of two principal subsidence episodes connected to the eruptions of the Campanian Ignimbrite and the Campanian Yellow Tuff.
• The soil, derived from successive volcanic eruptions, is rich in ash, lapilli, pumice, tuff, and trace elements.
• Episodes of bradyseism accompanied and accelerated the fragmentation of the Campi Flegrei from the sixth century onwards.

• Pliny the Elder mentions the colombino wine from the area of Puteoli, hypothesised as a precursor to the current grape variety per'e palummo.
• The wine de Putheolo was among the wines selected for the royal table at the time of Charles II of Anjou, as recorded in his Liber espensarum.
• The origin of the name Falanghina is hypothesised from the wooden support stake used for the vine, locally called falanga, with old long-layering training systems known as the metodo Puteolano, practised on century-old plants.

Facts drawn from the specification's terroir-link section by automatic interpretation — see the source.

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Sources

• eAmbrosia register (EU) — File number PDO-IT-A0239
• Official trade body site — Consorzio Tutela Vini Campi Flegrei e Ischia