Joaquin “Joaquin dall’Isola” Campania Bianco 2024

The glamorous and highly touristic island of Capri, just off the Amalfi Coast, is home to a mere 20 hectares of vines, and Raffaele owns a 1.2-hectare parcel of co-planted Greco, Falanghina, Biancolella, and Ciunchesa here, situated at 380 meters altitude, from which he produces only about 2,000 bottles per vintage. “Joaquin dall’Isola” (“Joaquin from the Island”) expresses Capri’s wind-buffeted, limestone-rich terroir through Raffaele’s highly personal lens, as he co-ferments his varieties and allows them to macerate on their skins for five days before a six-month stint on the lees in non-thermoregulated stainless steel. Rich but not unctuous, mineral-saturated but not austere, this wine vividly evokes the sea in its whomping saltiness, yet possesses a sense of caressing serenity at its core.