L'Acino’s Chora Rosso is the quintessential red quaffer of the estate - bright, easy and downright sluggable (in the best way!) The fruit here is drawn from the younger massale plantings of Magliocco, all of which are farmed organically, hand harvested and crushed, with a good portion of whole clusters retained during fermentation, which are of course spurred by native yeasts. The resulting wine is bottled unfined and unfiltered with just a dash of SO2 early the following spring and shows exactly what is possible from Calabria’s higher elevation and subsequently cooler climes. There’s nothing brawny or overripe to be found here, replaced instead with the pure, youthful exuberance of just-ripe black forest fruits, fresh black plum, and tomato and basil passata, all grounded with zesty aromatics of ground white pepper, star anise and dusty earth.