Freddy R. Troya

9.0

Aia Vecchia – Vermentino / 2024
Toscana IGT – Tuscany / Italy 🇮🇹

Overview
100% Vermentino from coastal Tuscany. A fresh, Mediterranean-driven expression highlighting purity, salinity, and balance. Crafted to emphasize drinkability without sacrificing varietal character.

Aromas & Flavors
Citrus zest, green apple, and white peach layered with subtle herbal notes and a touch of sea-breeze salinity. Clean, bright, and inviting.

Mouthfeel
Light to medium-bodied with a zippy, refreshing profile. Acidity is well-controlled, giving lift without sharp edges. The finish sits right in the middle, neither short nor extended, making it incredibly easy to keep going back for another sip.

Food Pairings
Seafood, grilled vegetables, light pasta, bruschetta, or simple appetizers.

Verdict
A pure, clean, and beautifully made Vermentino that overdelivers in drinkability. Not flashy, just precise, refreshing, and consistently satisfying.

Did You Know?
Vermentino thrives in coastal regions like Tuscany and Liguria, where maritime influence enhances its natural salinity and freshness, often giving the wine its signature “sea-breeze” character.

🍷 Personal Pick
This is my kind of “patio pounder”—zippy, dry, and dangerously easy to drink. Not because it lacks complexity, but because it’s so well made that it flows effortlessly. Whether by the pool or alongside light bites, this wine adapts and delivers every time. — 3 months ago

Craig Becraft

9.0

Delightfully fresh with a golden glow of muted fruit, light, lemon citrus melon but nice acidity to keep it clean excellent with a chicken in garlic and white wine, cream sauce with Calabrese chilies — 8 months ago

Carmen

9.5

Brambly berry pie, watermelon, delicate effervescent. Perfect Lambrusco for a warm day or apero hour.

(Btg at Bottino in Chelsea NYC) — 2 years ago

Randy Fuller

9.6

This dark wine has a fruity nose of blackberry and plum, but there are some more savory notes as well. Black pepper, cigar box and black olive also come through. On the palate, licorice and plums are in the forefront of one of the fruitier flavor profiles I have tasted in Apulian Primitivos. The 16% alcohol is not as overpowering as I imagined it would be. The tannins are fairly forceful and the acidity is refreshing. This wine drinks really well and will pair nicely with a marbled rib eye steak. — 5 years ago

Owain Jones

9.1

Very smooth, one of the smoothest we have tasted. Glass tasted at aan de Poel, Amsterdam with beef, cépe and celeriac — 7 years ago

Miss Harvey

8.9

Bright and full of minerals. It would round out if aged a bit — 8 years ago

Brandyn Pryce

8.9

At Pinard Wine Bar for the SFU Alumni event with Malachi and the Skoners! Lovely cab. — 4 months ago

with Erin

Angela Sanks

9.0

strawberries. Clean. Long lasting bubbles — 7 months ago

romo

9.1

Grenache-y. — 10 months ago

Pamela Taylor

9.0

So cool! Black cherry, mint/herbs, bittersweet smoky chocolate, med+ acidity, med body, tart finish. Glad I got to try this rarity! — 4 years ago

Samuli Jokipaltio

9.0

Explosion of flavor, dark, spicy - get balanced. — 6 years ago

Anthony De Blasi

9.3

Spectacular Puglia wine from the Falvo family (previous Avignonesi owners). Still going strong on age 9! — 6 years ago

John Washko

9.0

Well balanced and easy drinking ...Organic, purity from volcanic soil — 7 years ago

Walter Fahr

9.1

Very nice Primitivo from the Puglia/Salento region. Dark ruby color. Paires wonderfully with Southern Italian food, but will go well with a variety of foods. Drank November 2025 — 7 months ago

Sam Rubin

9.3

Fruity forward. Soaked mouthfeel. Great wine for great price — 7 months ago

Martijn

9.0

Powerfull Barbaresco. — 9 months ago

Paul Meier

9.0

Dark plum, tobacco and other deep@fruit flavors rounded out with medium level tannins that make this more Sangiovese like than zin. — 10 months ago

Adam Condliffe

9.1

Smooth with chocolate after taste — 4 years ago

Pablo

9.3

Loved this. Minerally citrusy dry white. Is that apricot? — 6 years ago

Anne Carman

8.9

Heady notes of muddled red raspberry, salami and meadow grass. Significant tannins and vanilla edge. Warm finish. — 7 years ago