100% Aglianico
Basilicata, Italy
The Aglianico del Vulture “Liscone” comes 35-year-old vines (2023) is at 430m planted with massale selections. The 50cm of topsoil is black volcanic clay mixed with coarse, blondish-gray volcanic tuff from the underlying bedrock.
Destemmed, natural fermention for 14-24 days with daily pump overs at 28-32°C max. Aged 18 months in steel, then one year in old 500l French oak. Sulfites added after malolactic; light filtration, no fining.
Enologists Paolo and Michele Latoracca (the latter also a university professor in enology and viticulture, and agronomy), along with their father, Giuseppe, bottled their first commercial wines in 2003. Two idealistic enologists fused with their father’s deep vineyard experience resulting in a perfect combination for authentic volcanic Aglianico wines. Located in Venosa, one of fifteen communes of the DOC and DOCG areas of Aglianico del Vulture, their organic vineyards are between 400-550 meters altitude. Between their three parcels, there are five notable terroirs bottled independently. Other than the Messer Oto terroir, which sits on calcareous alluvium, their remaining terroirs are composed of primarily black to dark brown volcanic clay soils and extremely friable tuff (lithified volcanic pyroclastic debris) with varying levels of topsoil depth and soil grain composition of rock, sand and clay. Their entire range comes from massale selection Aglianicos.
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