Basilicata has five named wine areas, including Aglianico del Vulture, Aglianico del Vulture Superiore and Grottino di Roccanova. In northern Basilicata, near Puglia and Campania, Vulture's vineyards climb an extinct volcano, roughly 200 to 600 metres above sea level. Cold autumn nights and slope breezes accompany a long growing season for the late-ripening Aglianico grape. Soils change with elevation, from iron-rich soils on the lower slopes to sulphurous soils higher up. Volcanic tuff can retain moisture for vine roots in this warm, dry area. Aglianico del Vulture is usually dry and savoury, with fruit, acidity and drying tannin, and it can age well. It carries the DOC designation; Aglianico del Vulture Superiore, intended for longer ageing, carries DOCG. These are Italian wine appellation categories. Elsewhere in the region, Terre dell'Alta Val d'Agri also permits rosé.
5 named areas
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Explore the wine-growing areas of Basilicata.
- 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 a red wine from Basilicata intended for longer ageing. It carries DOCG, the controlled and guaranteed designation of origin.
- 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 wine area in Basilicata. Its permitted styles include rosato, or rosé.
Producer profiles
Producer profiles
Every producer profiled in Basilicata so far.
- 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.