Basilicata has five named wine areas, including Aglianico del Vulture, Aglianico del Vulture Superiore and Grottino di Roccanova. The fullest story lies in Vulture, in northern Basilicata near Puglia and Campania. Its vineyards run up the slopes of an extinct volcano, roughly 200 to 600 metres above sea level, where cold autumn nights and slope breezes accompany a long growing season for late-ripening Aglianico.
The soils change as the vineyards rise, from ferrous soils on the lower slopes to sulphurous soils higher up. In this warm, dry area, volcanic tuff can retain moisture for vine roots. Aglianico del Vulture is usually dry and savoury, with fruit, acidity, tannin and minerality, and it can age well. It is a DOC wine, while the more age-oriented Aglianico del Vulture Superiore is DOCG. Terre dell'Alta Val d'Agri also permits rosato.
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5 named areas
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- 01Aglianico del Vulture4 producersAglianico del Vulture is a DOC wine area in Basilicata. Its dry, savoury, mineral wines have firm acidity and tannin, with the capacity to age.
- 02Aglianico del Vulture SuperioreNo producers listed yetAglianico del Vulture Superiore is Basilicata's more age-oriented Vulture red-wine expression. It carries DOCG, the controlled and guaranteed designation.
- 03Grottino di RoccanovaNo producers listed yetGrottino di Roccanova is a DOC covering three municipalities in Potenza province. It includes red, reserve red, white and rosé wines, and its name refers to ageing wine in sandstone caves.
- 04MateraNo producers listed yetMatera DOC covers the entire province of Matera. Its wines include red, white, rosé, sparkling and passito styles, while Matera Rosso combines Sangiovese and Primitivo.
- 05Terre dell'Alta Val d'AgriNo producers listed yetTerre dell'Alta Val d'Agri is a Basilicata wine area that also permits rosato.
Producer profiles
Producer profiles
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- Azienda Agricola Donato D’Angelo di Ruppi FilomenaFourth-generation Basilicata estate built around Aglianico del Vulture, with a cellar-aged Donato d'Angelo wine and a younger-vine bottling called Calice from the volcanic hills of the Vulture DOC zone.
- Azienda Agricola Elena FucciSingle-wine Basilicata estate producing Titolo, an Aglianico del Vulture from seventy-year-old vines at 600 metres on Monte Vulture's volcanic slopes.
- Basilisco Societa Agricola SrlCertified organic Aglianico del Vulture from volcanic slopes above Barile, aged in natural caves beneath a 16th-century palace in the Vulture hills of Basilicata.
- Casa Vinicola D'AngeloFour-generation Basilicata family estate making Aglianico del Vulture on volcanic slopes above Rionero in Vulture, with native-yeast fermentation, ten days of skin maceration, and 18 months in large neutral oak.