2021 Palazzo Tronconi 'Gizziello' Lecinaro Pet'Nat

Region: Lazio < Italy                    Grapes: Lecinaro Vineyard/Cellar Stats: Certified biodynamic farming; mixture of clay-limestone; no maceration, vinified like a white wine with the juice bled from the grapes immediately and allowed to spontaneously ferment for 7 days in concrete; secondary fermentation in bottle using the same wine then aged for one year before release; bottled unfined/unfiltered with no added SO2; 166 cases; 12% ABV Winemaker: Marco MarroccoNEW VINTAGE!  Marco’s family owned this pristine vineyard land, in a medieval hill town on the border between Lazio and Campania, for generations.  His grandfather basically sold out to international varieties and sold off much of the grapes, but in 2010 Marco Marocco, an engineer, took over the 3.5 hectares of vineyard land, returned to school (at age 37) to get his Italian Somm and Oenology degrees, then headed off to make wine in Bordeaux. When he returned to his land a few years later, Marco revived abandoned, anci