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Selections
Synonym of aglianico
Native white grapes
Extravirgin olive oils

A top-class wine, red and pulsating life like blood ("eme" in Greek): this is our project dedicated to people with real passion. It has a magnificent blend, so uniquely delightful, an elegance achieved from the wise and balanced blending of wines processed in pureness from the grapes of the Aglianico and other vine varietals grown with real passion in our “Bosco Faiano” vineyards. The uniqueness of these clones helps to express the most original and authentic identity of our long and appealing of our family-run winemaking establishment.

The Faius of I Capitani is a project that pursues excellence. The highest expression of the grand white vine stocks of Irpinia (Fiano Greco and Falanghina). A wine with a powerful structure and a typical feature of mineral freshness able to evolve with time. Refining in small oak barrel for a period of 6 - 8 months adds balance and personality. A really unique wine.

The wine represent the primum movens of the Farm “I Capitani” junction between past and present, the real soul of the Farm. And the soul is all in the Taurasi “ Bosco Faiano”, wine of excellent structure, obtained from the vintage of selected grapes of the Aglianico Taurasi grapevines.

A red wine with a particular structure and identity. Obtained from the vinification of selected grapes from the Aglianico Taurasi vinestock cultivated with care and passion in our vineyards. The maturation in oak barriques exalts its taste and enriches its bouquet.

Guaglione wine is a perfect sample of the Aglianico wines. This young and vigorous wine denotes a strong personality. Its color is intense and highly fruity to the nose, very pleasant and tannic to taste. Straightforward and sincere, as only the youth can be.

From the most exclusive vine stocks of Irpinia, it is one of the most exclusive I Capitani white wines. The Greco di Tufo DOCG Serum is a white wine with a delicate flavour, intense in colour, a harmonic balance that is simply unmistakable.

Few vine stocks classify a territory in such a way as the Fiano classifies the territory of Avellino. The Fiano of Avellino DOCG Gaudium de I Capitani, a white wine with a powerful structure and a bursting personality faithfully reflects the characteristics of these territories, testifying to its calling to wine production.

Obtained from the vinification of selected grapes of autochthonous Falanghina vine stocks, Clarum of I Capitani fully represents our territory with undeniably dynamic fragrances and tastes.

Aurum Silvae of the i Capitani group is the product of a region which favours its growth and is attentive to strictly controlled crop cultivation and cold processing methods. This extra virgin olive oil of the Ravece mono-cultivar is the highest expression of the Irpinia region which offers the best typical products in terms of quality and uniqueness, intense sensations to the nose and on the palate.

Turrioro is a quality extra virgin olive oil, and is the product of a careful processing of olives harvested in the Irpinia region (Ogliarola, Ravece, Leccino, and Moraiolo). The handpicking and cold pressing of the berry highlights the top quality organic values and superb organoleptic features of this oil which is perfect for cooking or seasoning all the typical dishes of our Mediterranean cuisine.

Selections

The love of our lands, respect for tradition and the search for true emotions inspire our wines of excellence. One red and one white wine are produced in limited numbers for true fans with a big personality and uniqueness. They are a real concentrate of our best philosophy of winemakers without patterns and compromises, a free and magnificent interpretation of ourselves.

Synonyms of aglianico cultivar

Aglianico is the most important red grape of southern Italy and it's in the inner part of Campania specially in the Avellino province which reaches its maximum expression. Grape of absolute value and quality lends itself to very different but always excellent wines. From our vineyards we produce three great Aglianico-based wines: Guaglione a young and fruity wine, Jumara a medium aging wine with a wonderful elegance and Taurasi, the top of the range, a long aging wine famous all around the world and called by the wine experts: Barolo of the South.

Great native white grapes

In our area three fabolous native white vines are cultivated for centuries, each one of high quality and personality with very different characteristics between them. Greco vine more mineral, more structured and complex Fiano vine, Falanghina vine fresh and aromatic. In our production are rightly present all three, each with its peculiarities.

Extravirgin olive oils

Real jewels, extra virgin olive oils of superior quality. From olives 100% produced in Irpinia of the noblest varieties, hand picked and cold pressed within 24 hours. A concentration of fruit and flavor. Unique and uplifting sensory experience.

Description

Faius of I Capitani is a project that pursues excellence. The highest expression of the grand white vine stocks of Irpinia (Fiano, Greco and Falanghina). A wine with a powerful structure and a typical feature of mineral freshness able to evolve with time. Refining in small oak barrel for a period of 6 - 8 months adds balance and personality. A really unique wine.

Tasting guide

Colour

Straw yellow with evident golden reflex.

Fragrance

Delicate, elegant but persistent, with a hint of vanilla, roasted almonds, ripe yellow fruits, citrus peels, apricot and peach. Pleasant floral and citrus notes.

Flavour

Dry or soft, glycolic, mineral with intense notes of fruit.

Food matches & suggestions

Faius is a strong and elegant wine at the same time. It's a white wine that expresses intense varietal aromas with a complex and refined nose, a broad and enveloping taste. The evolution in the bottle ennobles it every year, following a natural and charming evolution. Good pairing with soup and grilled fish, white meats, pies, soft cheeses, rustic, soups in general. You will be surprised anyway.

Our recipe

Soup of mushrooms and chestnuts

Ingredients for 4 peoples :

600 g (21 oz) chestnuts, 150 g (5.3 oz) dry mushroom, 1 clove of garlic, extra virgin olive oil, parsley, salt.

Directions :

Soak the mushrooms for about an hour, then squeeze them and brown them in a saucepan with garlic, olive oil and parsley. Peel chestnuts totally and boil them. Add chestnuts and mushrooms together with part of the cooking water, add salt, then cook for 10 minutes. Serve hot on crouton or chunks of fried polenta.

From field to bottle

Place of production

An experimental vineyard in the Bosco Faiano locality of Torre Le Nocelle(AV), its clay-like and chalky soil looks to the southwest in a hilly zone located at 360 m above sea level.

Grapevines

Fiano (50%), Greco and Falanghina from an experimental vineyard “Bosco Faiano” with guyot cultivation and very low yields (about 45 quintals per hectare) hand-harvested in crates with selection on plant.

Vinification

Greco and Falanghina grape harvested in the early October, pressing and fermentation. While Fiano at the end of October, slightly over-ripened, pre-fermentation maturation on their skins, alcoholic fermentation made by native yeasts in oak barrels first and/or second use of medium size.

Ripening

Permanence on fermentation yeasts for 6 - 8 months. Fiano stay oak barrels with periodic batonages. 3 months in bottle.

Curiosity & insights

Faius is the name of the man who owned the hill where now stands our company at "Bosco Faiano" at the time of Roman Empire. Our Faius comes from an ambitious and challenging project: concentrate the best of our white native grapevines in a unique bottle that can evolve and improve over time. This challenge is very difficult when it concerns to a white wine. The great quality of our grapes and the wise use of oak with above all a lot of experience, have enabled us to get this special wine for palates not standardized, for wine lovers looking for something special to keep. Fermentation in oak barrel with repeated batonage (put in suspension by stirring of the good lees) promotes the production of the wine's natural defenses against oxidation and imparts a sweet spiciness on the palate. Faius is undoubtedly our white wine of excellence ... a small jewel of patient workmanship.