red grape · rare
Tintore di Tramonti
Tramonti, Campania, Italy
Say it
teen·toh·rehdeetrah·mon·tee
On the palate
black cherryblack plumblackberryblack currantclovelicorice
How you spot it blind: inky teinturier with explosive tannins from pre-phylloxera ungrafted vines
The story
DNA analysis has identified Tintore di Tramonti as a natural cross of Aglianico and Tintora that survived phylloxera entirely on ungrafted rootstock in the isolated Monti Lattari of the Amalfi Coast.
Family tree: Gerusalemme × Aglianico
Where it lives
Tramonti (Costa d'Amalfi), Campania, Italy
Shows up as
still red
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