Le Coste
Primeur 2022

  • Region Gradoli, Lazio, Italy
  • Grapes Aleatico
  • Vineyard Biodynamic
  • Cellar Fermented with native yeasts, unfiltered & unfined, no additional sulphites
  • ABV 12.5%
  • Size 750ml

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About the Wine

A wine that never fails to impress with its elevated, rose garden aromas. To balance, there are dark, liquorice bitters underpinning the bright raspberry and red cherry fruit. As the name suggests, this is a vivid, spring-bottled wine that is really flaunting it. Many associate this grape with sweet wines, but here you can appreciate how magical it can be when fermented dry.

It is 100% Aleatico from their “Le Spiaggette” vineyard that underwent carbonic maceration for ten days, before being pressed off to vat to finish fermentation and rest until the following spring. 

From a cooler year, this is incredibly lifted and perfumed, with soaring notes of red berries, rose and spice. Almost impossibly light on its feet, this iconic wine remains one of the best in its category, delivering plenty of energy and charm.


About Le Coste

Gianmarco Antonuzzi and Clémentine Bouveron tend around 14 hectares of land, with vineyards amongst olive groves, chestnut trees, shrubs and oaks. Sat around Lago di Bolsena near Gianmarco's childhood town of Gradoli in Lazio's north, the soils are volcanic, rich in iron and minerals. Vines are planted at a density of up to 10,000 plants per hectare, from a mix of massale selections and ungrafted vines. Everything is done by hand, with careful attention to the needs of each plant and while biodynamic principles are employed, the approach here goes above and beyond. Each year they produce a dizzying number of different wines which are vinified in an ancient cellar in the village's centre where nothing is added at any stage. To taste here is a real treat, Gianmarco is a master of élevage and a real patience in this respect results in some of the purest, most delicious wines we have tried. This is a fascinating project, where the passion and dedication of two people is single handedly putting one of Italy's lesser known villages firmly on the map.

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