By Majo Norante, Stevie Kim, and the reds and whites of Molise

Despite the very famous meme “Molisn't”, the small Italian region of Molise also has its important representation in the country's viticultural map: today's video aims to discover one of the excellences of the province of Campobasso, namely the Di Majo Norante company, active since the 19th century in the production of wine.

We are in the municipality of Campomarino (CB), associated with both the AN City of Oil and the AN “City of Wine”, by virtue of the productions that dot its fertile territory, in the company of Alessio Di Majo Norante, a winemaker who has always defended native biodiversity and the varieties of local vines,

with which he produces ten labels.

Alessio, what are the characteristics of the territory that surrounds us?

As you can see, the surroundings do not bear the signs of a strong industrialization, quite the contrary. We are surrounded by the purest nature, which we respect in our cultivation methods: this gives fermentation a harmonious character, which can be recognized in the glass. For red wines, on our estate we have the varieties Aglianico, Montepulciano, Tintilia and Sangiovese, while for white wines we have Greco, Falanghina and

Moscato.

Do you have a favorite blend among those you have listed for us

?

I have to say no. I have five children and for me the grapes are like them, there is no one that beats the others. My father Luigi, however, started this business in the '60s and one of our labels — Don Luigi — takes up his name and that of one of my children. If I were to indicate my picture-wine, I would most likely indicate this, a pure Montepulciano. Sassius, on the other hand, is 100% Aglianico

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Our production has reached a volume of 600/700,000 bottles, 60/ 70% red wines. We export more or less the same percentage of bottles, with only 30% of the production remaining in the national territory

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What are the most successful wines you produce?

Obviously it depends on the geographical area. In America, we export more Sangiovese and Ramitello: the latter is a blend composed of 80% Montepulciano and

20% Aglianico.

White wines, even if they are less in demand, give us some satisfaction, in particular Falanghina. In addition to being a historic wine, much appreciated by the Samnites, it has an acidity that allows it to be combined with fish dishes; the prices of our wines, then, are low and allow a greater number of people to taste

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Today's journey ends here, but at &' in the Spaghetti and Mandolino magazine it is possible to recover the previous episodes of our podcast, starting with paragraph' the last episode shot at the Castello della Sala

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