Angelo Mastroberandino  was surrounded by war and economic depression, but he resisted the call to grow grapes for cheap bulk-wine production. Instead, he became a scholar of the vine. He studied the land, the soil, the history of ancient grapes in Irpinia and Campania. He amassed a tremendous understanding of the hows and whys of grape growing in these two regions. And, quite literally, Angelo single handedly preserved the glories of the Greco di Tufo and Fiano  grapes. His contributions to Italian winemaking place him smack in the middle of the country’s pantheon of great winemakers. There’s no better way to understand how life could be in Campania than through a glass of Angelo’s pale golden Greco. Its exotic asian spiced pear and orange aromatics are braced by a blast of acidity. There’s an ancient depth here – an unpacking of minerality and citrus that happens between layers of pear and orange. The wine finishes juicy and clean – and each glass begs to be followed by another. You can imagine drinking it at the end of a long, hot day in southern Italy – standing at the edge of the vineyards, watching the sun set.