Cantina Giardino

Cantina Giardino Fiano Gaia Orange 2021

Name: Cantina Giardino Fiano Gaia Orange 2021
Brand: Cantina Giardino
SKU: cantinagiardino-gaia-S09
Price: 45.00 USD
Availability: InStock

$45.00

Style: Dry, medium-bodied skin-contact white; the four-day maceration gives the wine amber color and phenolic grip without making it heavy; the combination of high altitude, limestone soils, and old vines produces a structured, mineral profile that reads more as textured white than as a deeply oxidative orange wine
Grapes & terroir: 100% Fiano; old vines 30 to over 90 years old; Lapio and Candida, Avellino province, Irpinia, Campania; clay-limestone and marl soils at 450–500 metres with a volcanic cap; organically farmed; hand-harvested at low yields
Winemaking: Four-day skin maceration after harvest; spontaneous fermentation with indigenous yeasts on fine lees for approximately 3 months; 12 months aging in old chestnut and acacia barrels; no temperature control; bottled unfined, unfiltered, no added sulfites
Serving temperature & decanting: Serve at 55–59°F; pour freely without full decanting, though 15 to 20 minutes in a generous glass will help the aromatics open; best enjoyed slowly as it evolves in the glass
Pairing: Pasta con le sarde (Sicilian pasta with sardines and wild fennel)

Cantina Giardino Fiano Gaia Orange 2021 is a dry skin-contact white wine made from 100% Fiano by Antonio and Daniela De Gruttola at Cantina Giardino in Irpinia, Campania. The grapes come from old vines ranging from 30 to over 90 years old, grown at 450 to 500 metres elevation on clay-limestone and marl soils with a volcanic cap in the Lapio and Candida areas of Avellino province. Following a four-day skin maceration with spontaneous fermentation, Cantina Giardino Fiano Gaia Orange 2021 ages for 12 months in old chestnut and acacia barrels. Bottled unfined, unfiltered, and without added sulfites. Campania IGP.

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Cantina Giardino Fiano Gaia Orange 2021

$45.00

Producer profile

Cantina Giardino

Cantina Giardino was established in Ariano Irpino by Antonio and Daniela De Gruttola, growing out of informal winemaking experiments among a group of friends in the late 1990s at the cellar of a man they knew as Professor Giardino, whose name the winery took. The commercial project launched formally in 2003, built around a single guiding principle: identify and rescue the old-vine parcels of Irpinia that local farmers could no longer afford to maintain. Industrial agriculture had pressed many growers to uproot indigenous varieties or abandon vineyards altogether, and Antonio and Daniela worked to reverse that trajectory by farming and vinifying those sites themselves.

Antonio studied food technology before specializing in viticulture and oenology in Piedmont. Daniela, trained as an architect, contributes to the project in practical and artistic dimensions, including crafting terracotta amphorae by hand from soil taken directly from the vineyards. Today Cantina Giardino works approximately seven hectares across sixteen parcels in the province of Avellino, with vines of Aglianico, Fiano, Greco, and Coda di Volpe, some exceeding 100 years old. All farming is organic, all work in the vineyard is by hand, and vines are trained in the traditional alberello style where possible.

In the cellar, fermentations are spontaneous and proceed without temperature control, sometimes continuing for months. Vessels include terracotta and sandstone amphorae, and casks of local chestnut, acacia, cherry, and mulberry. No fining, no filtration, and in most cases no added sulfites. Every vintage's labels are hand-designed by a different local artist.

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Wine region

Campania, Italy

Irpinia sits in the mountainous interior of Campania, within the province of Avellino, roughly midway between Naples and the Adriatic coast. The terrain is rugged and hilly, with vineyards planted at elevations of 400 to 600 metres on a complex mosaic of volcanic, limestone, clay, and marl soils. The altitude brings cooler temperatures and significant diurnal variation through the growing season, allowing white grapes like Fiano to ripen slowly and retain both aromatic intensity and structural acidity.

The areas of Lapio and Candida, from which Cantina Giardino sources the Fiano for Gaia, are historic sites within the Fiano di Avellino DOCG zone. This DOCG is one of Italy's most respected white wine appellations and is considered one of the greatest white wines of the south. The soils here are calcareous marls and limestone with a thin volcanic cap, a combination that shapes Fiano's naturally mineral, nutty, and floral character. The vines for the Gaia parcel range from 30 to over 90 years old, their root systems reaching deep into this mineral-rich subsoil.

Irpinia holds three DOCGs: Taurasi for Aglianico, Fiano di Avellino, and Greco di Tufo. These appellations together represent the highest formal recognition of Irpinia's white and red wine traditions. Beyond the named appellations, the province continues to harbor old, organically farmed parcels of indigenous varieties that producers like Cantina Giardino have made it their mission to preserve. The region is increasingly recognized internationally as one of the most distinctive and place-specific wine territories in southern Italy.

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Midwest: 3-4 business days
East Coast: 5 business days

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