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Born in the climate of the Thousand and unification of Italy, the wines of the Bishop’s 145 years ago. When Pasquale Palumbo cured with extraordinary wisdom and dedication, the vines attached to the Bishop’s house in Ravello, better known as Bishop’s. Hence the name of the wine. The brand is maintained through four generations now managed with a sure hand by Marco Vuilleumier, heir of so much tradition. Then the wine Pasquale Palumbo joins the hotel of the same name, which will in a few years to such an audience of distinguished guests, which has few comparisons in terms of Europe.The list of personalities – from Wagner to Greta Garbo is the real Sweden and Denmark to Humphrey Bogart, John Huston, Lauren Bacall, Grieg, Malaparte – always accompanies it, and correspondingly, the hotel’s history and that of wine .

The Bishops of Palumbo became a close pair, where one refers to the other and both are identified with the unique image of Ravello. Curated and produced the old fashioned way in not more than thirty thousand bottles of wine cellars Episcopio born between Ravello and Scala, in Vigna San Lorenzo 350 meters above sea level. The types are the classical ones provided by the specification of Doc: Red, Rosé and White. The first, with an alcohol content of 12.5, is extremely durable and perfectly preserved, almost twenty. Born from a blend of Aglianico and Piedirosso Serpentara, the variety it very local. The output of around eight thousand bottles.The Rose, Ravello Rosé labeled as Doc, uses the same blend and is credited for the full structure, soft and intense. The production is far less, only four thousand bottles, a wine whose streak of fresh acidity hides good 12 degrees.

For the Ravello Bianco Doc is the only grape used instead of scale, variety in San Nicolas, Tender White, White Zita window. Even in this case the first vine is not reflected across the boundaries. The wine of great personality and finesse, with a pleasant aftertaste, is the most widely produced. More valuable is instead the other White, Vigna San Lorenzo, built in only five thousand bottles.Here the composition of the Ravello Bianco adds Pepella, a grape of ancient and renamed as among the most typical of the area. Bishop’s also produces, as table wines, two reds, a Special Reserve (vintage ’92) from Aglianico grapes, and Piedirosso Serpentara, and Confalone from Aglianico.

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