'Il Giallo di Costa' Ricci
Artisanal"Il Giallo di Costa from the Ricci winery is an anarchic, countercultural white wine. Vinified in close contact with the skins for 90 days with submerged cap in steel tanks. A vertiginous and whirling olfactory explosion that smells of honey, resin, citrus peel and candied fruit. A powerful taste, solid, slightly tannic, unforgettable. Wines made with Old Style Artisanal Methods
“Il Giallo di Costa” from the winery Daniele Ricci is an unruly yet enchanting poem. A liquid to approach without ifs and buts, without prejudices, with a clear mind, a blank slate, with an open and curious spirit. This contemporary interpretation and out-of-the-box take on the historic white grape variety cannot certainly leave one indifferent. Here we go beyond Walter Massa, we go beyond the mere valorization of the variety, we go beyond the oenological diktat reaching Nirvana: the authentic and exemplary meeting between the earth, the sky, and the hand of man
On several occasions, the winemaker Daniele Ricci has admitted to being particularly attached to “Il Giallo di Costa”, whose first vintage dates back to 2007. The optimal realization of this label is played out almost entirely in the vineyard; because to allow for a maceration of as much as 90 days on the skins, it is necessary to bring perfectly healthy and ripe bunches into the winery. Daniele is well aware of this and tends to his approximately 25-year-old plants embracing the principles of organic farming, certified by the Bios entity.
The “Il Giallo di Costa” by Daniele Ricci is not simply a white, it is an orange, brilliant and deep, that macerates on the skins for 90 days with submerged cap in steel tanks. A liquid reincarnation of that “golden style in which the languor of the sun dances” by Paul Verlaine, it emanates ethereal aromas of candied fruit and citrus peel, acacia honey, and toasted hazelnuts, on a green, marine, and mentholated background. When you drink it, it intoxicates you, enriches you, stirs you from within, dismantling one by one the beliefs you thought you held about that grape variety and stimulating you to taste again, anew, from the beginning.