Southern Italian Wine Tasting

There was Southern Italian Wine: A Guided Tasting at Solano Cellars this week.
The tasting of one white, one rose and four reds from southern Italy.

This picture somehow has 7 bottles of wine...never mind.

Mastroberardino Radici Fiano di Avellino 2014 is a white wine from Campania.
The grape is 100% Fiano di Avellino.

This wine has stone fruit and savoriness of prosciutto. 
I like prosciutto and peach, not melon, combo. It should go good with this wine.  

Rose wine from Sicilia, Tasca le Rose di Regaleali 2015
100% Nerello Mascalese. 
This grape has high tannin, but they made this wine with low tannin. This low tannin and citrus zest-like bitterness in aftertaste made this wine refreshing. 

Erse Etna Rosso 2013. Red wine from Sicilia.
80% Nerello Mascalese, 20% Nerello Cappuccio.
These grapes are blended together often.
The bright ruby color reminded me of Gamay, but this wine has high tannin and good structure.

Librandi Duca San Felice Ciro Riserva 2011 is red wine from Calabria.
100% Gaglioppo, the indigenous variety.
The meatiness of this wine made me crave roasted lamb.
Gaglioppo is supposed to have relatively low tannin and sometimes needs longer maceration to extract enough tannin. This wine was backed with good amount of tannin.

Botromagno Primitivo Murgia Rosso 2014
100% Primitivo from Puglia. Primitivo is, say, a cousin of Zinfandel?
It was jammy and full-bodied. Very likable wine.

Bisceglia Gudarra Aglianico del Vulture 2009
The Garnet color Aglianico from Basilicata.
There were violet and herbs. Tannin was high but well integrated. It felt soft.

Argiolas Korem Isola dei Nuraghi 2012
From Sardegna. 55％ Bovale Sardo, 35％ Carignano, 10％ Cannonau.
Bovale Sardo is the indigenous grape of Sardegna. Full-bodied.
This and Aglianico were aged in new French oak for 12 months.

Chloe from WInebow guided us through this tasting. She was amiable and made everybody feel at home.
With her help, I got to know and enjoy the hidden jewels of Southern Italy.
It was hard to choose only two to buy from those wines, but I didn't have a car to carry them all that day so made a tough choice: Aglianico and Gaglioppo. 

Italy is now struggling to recover from the huge earthquake. When Japan was hit by the earthquake, I saw people here showing their support by purchasing Japanese products, and I really appreciated their gesture. The idea that total strangers did something to support us really helped us to go through that tough time.
I don't have any resource or talent to make big change, but at least I want to show support by buying Italian products.
I don't do it out of pity: I do it because I believe in wines and people of Italy.