Maradei

Calabria

Oct 18

“we prefer that our products speak for us, with their taste they will tell you about our work and our love for this land.”

Domaine Overview

Year Founded: 1980s

Winemaker:

Location: Pollino, Italy

Size: 5 hectares under vine

Grapes: guarnaccia bianca , malvasia bianca and nera , magliocco dolce and moscatello di Saracena
Farming: Biodynamic, Organic [certification Suolo & Salute, codice 53641]

Production: About 26,400 bottles/year

Azienda Agricola Maradei is a family-run business that reopened in the 1980s after a break of several years. The family continues the passion for oil and wine with their four daughters. They have always been committed to biological cultivation. In 2014 the family took it upon themselves to be a part of the new beginnings in agriculture in the name of quality and switched to biodynamic farming.

The Maradei Company extends between the municipalities of Saracena, Firmo and Lungro, in the area between the Pollino National Park and the land of Sybaris. The territory, full of traditions and contradictions, with its culture and its uncontaminated nature is best expressed in the cultivation of olive trees and vines.

Combining tradition and innovation, we produce the excellent extra virgin olive oil in the company oil mill and the fine natural wines in the old family cellars, located in the heart of the arabic historical center of Saracena. We deal directly with the entire production cycle, from harvesting to bottling.

The Wines

MARADEI 'AGLÒ' BIANCO CALABRIA

Dedicated to the youngest of the sisters, Olga, the name doubles as a gioco di parole: pronounced ‘ah - gloo’ like the onomatopoeic sound for gulping [ a glou-ey drink]. In the glass, ‘Aglò’ glows golden thanks to Malvasia Bianca, and throws aromatics to match:, hay, dried fruits, orange peel, tamarind, bitter

MARADEI ‘DANFORA’ BIANCO CALABRIA

The aroma opens on citrus peel, orange blossom, chestnut honey and beeswax, tea leaf, walnut husk and apricot puree. On the palate it is long in the wake of flavor, it is sumptuous in the elegant and round as the amphorae in which it is produced. Liquid volume dampened by a beautiful freshness and an incisive sapidity, in closing a pleasant tannic presence draws a picture of the highest level.

MARADEI 'MARINÙ’ ROSATO CALABRIA

Marina’s wine, named for the pet name given to her by her sisters. Un rosato di alta colline… A Rosato of the high hills. Epic! One of the only Rosato produced in Calabria, in fact. Juicy and savory at once, a mouthful of mandarin and red fruits with earthy floral undertones.

Only 400 cases produced.

Zoe Pullen