Where can i buy corsican wine

Domaine Comte Abbatucci France Corsica Ajaccio A mix of smoke, peat, and a hop-like bouquet, with a sharp and fresh crystalline purity on the palate.

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Clear All. Corsican Wine We made our first wine buying foray to the Granite Isle back in the early noughties under the expert guidance of the author of 'The Rough Guide to Corsica' and my then next-door neighbour Dave Abram. View as Grid List. Show 18 27 Area Under Vine: 3, hectares.

Famous people from the region: Pascal Paoli, Napoleon. About Yapp Brothers. Out of the three, Boswell was the closest to describing Corsica's wine today, and some of his comments are uncannily perceptive, as we shall see anon.

Corsican viticulture stretches back over 2, years, when Phoenician settlers planted the first vines. Production was banned under the Arabs in the 8th century, but boosted by Napoleon, who granted Corsican wine tax-free status. A century later, in the s, the resettled pieds-noirs from Algeria began planting vineyards and producing large quantities of low quality wine. During the last few decades, however, quality has definitively outflanked quantity and Corsican wine is now receiving the international recognition it deserves.

As Jane Anson wrote in Decanter in early , Corsica is " right now among the most exciting wine destinations in France. As Boswell correctly intimated, Corsica boasts a wide diversity of terroirs , from the low-lying, sun-baked chalky clay in the northwest, to the wind-buffeted, granite-rich soil of the mountains above Ajaccio.

The significant variations in climate, altitude and soil type allows the island to produce a wide range of characterful wines from a fairly limited number of grape varieties, the most significant of which are Nielluccio Sangiovese , Sciacarello Mammolo and Vermentino Favorita. The perhaps more recognisable names in brackets hint at the fact that the grape varieties in question have, quite literally, Italian roots.

Red wines Most red wines contain a high proportion of either Nielluccio or Sciacarello grapes, blended with smaller quantities of Grenache, Barbarossa, Cinsault and Carignan. Unusually, white Vermentino grapes are also used in some red wines.

Not a bad way to stock up on your holiday wine.