How Gaglioppo was the star of CMB’s Calabrian rosé competition

The Concours Mondial de Bruxelles (CMB), is a wine competition and family business that helps raise the profile of a wine producing region by welcoming international journalists and buyers to a region – in this case Cirò in Calabria. It is an opportunity to discover how a region is faring, and also to discover new grapes and styles of wine. Heather Dougherty, representing The Buyer and the UK, reports here about the salinity of the wines in the region, the ancient varieties being resurrected by Librandi, and a group of small producers called Cirò Revolution which is championing pure, unadorned Gaglioppo an ancient grape, which may be the offspring of a natural crossing of Sangiovese and Mantonico (another local white grape) and has been compared to Nebbiolo.