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Red Lacryma Christi of Vesuvio D.O.C.

The excellent Red Lacryma Christi D.O.C. is produced within the Vesuvius National Park, respecting the wine tradition of Campania. It is a wine characterized by a ruby ​​red color and a pleasant aroma of red fruit and spices and by a dry taste with a balanced but complex and full bodied aroma.

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Characteristics

The Red Lacryma Christi D.O.C. is a wine characterized by a ruby ​​red color and a pleasant aroma of red fruit and spices and by a dry taste with a balanced but complex and full bodied aroma. It goes perfectly with pasta or polenta with meat sauce, roasts, game and piquant cheeses.

Tradition

Haec iuga quam Nysae colles plus Bacchus amavit”

“Bacco loved these hills more than his native hills of Nisa”

- Marziale

Lacryma Christi takes its name from an ancient Christian legend. It is said that Lucifer, the angel more beautiful and shining of Paradise, and beloved of Christ, has stolen a piece of heaven to bring it to Earth. From this piece of paradise would be born the Gulf of Naples with its fertile and hospitable lands.

Christ, aware of the theft, reluctantly expelled the angel from heaven, he fell down on the Earth and within it, creating the Inferno. The Creator wept bitterly for the great sorrow and his tears spilt on the dark land of Vesuvius, giving birth to an extraordinary vine and a heavenly wine.

The historical reality is more concrete, putting at the heart of the wine-growing tradition the work of Greek colonists. It was the eighth century BC when a group of exiles departed from Thessaly to colonize the coasts of Campania. They were the Aminei, people whose name still resists in Neapolitan toponymy, with Mount Amineo, where the first crop of Vesuvius wines were born.

Several centuries later a tiny congregation of Cappuccini monks, kept the secrets of this wine. They lived in "Turris Octava", the ancient Roman settlement eight miles from Naples. In time, thanks to the work of these winemakers monks, the settlement took the form of the city and took the name of Torre del Greco.

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Data sheet

Full name "Melody - O' surdato 'nnammurato"
Origins Campania
Place of production Terzigno (NA) Parco Nazionale del Vesuvio
Producer Azienda Agricola "Forno"
Vine Variety Aglianico and Piedirosso
Flavours Fruity
Alcohol 12,5%
Temperature 18 - 20 °C
Food combinations Pasta or polenta with meat sauce, roasts, game, piquant cheeses.

About Azienda Vinicola Forno s.r.l.

“Azienda Vinicola Forno” was founded in 1940. It is located within the beautiful protected area of ​​the Vesuvius National Park where , in a habitat rich in minerals and nutrients due to volcanic activity , it produces the most famous, fragrant and traditional wines of Campania using ancient and natural methods. Here at 200 meters above sea level, the grapes takes on all the organoleptic characteristics that give a unique taste to the Lacryma, making it one of the most popular wines in Italy and abroad.

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D.O.C.

Designation of origin. Exclusive brand for wines . The peculiar characteristics of this product depend exclusively or essentially from the territory where it is produced . The geographical environment , including both natural ( climate , morphology ) and human factors ( traditional craft techniques ) , guarantees the inimitable product outside the context of geographic origin.