Winemaker Notes
Ruby-red colored wine tending to violet-purple. Soft fruit aroma with a prevalence of plum and morello cherry. Well balanced, full in body and with a lingering finish.
Professional Ratings
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James Suckling
Aromas of black fruit and berries, dried herbs and moss. Medium-to full-bodied with slightly firm tannins. Juicy, with sweet berries and more herbs and earth on the finish.
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Robert Parker's Wine Advocate
The certified organic Basilisco 2020 Aglianico del Vulture Teodosio opens to a pretty dark appearance and lovely aromatic intensity that most prizes rich primary fruit with dark berry and black plum. Those dark tones are heavily amplified by sensations of volcanic lava and shiny silica. The mouthfeel is sharp and quite chiseled, and this too reinforces the volcanic personality of the wine.
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Vinous
Violet pastille hints lift dusty florals, lavender and crushed plums as the 2020 Aglianico del Vulture Teodosio opens in the glass. This is soft textured with a wave of tart blackberries and currants underscored by grippy minerality. A web of fine tannins lingers through the youthfully tension finale, as the 2020 finishes structured yet with a mentholated freshness.
Making its home in the mountainous southern Italy, Aglianico is a bold red variety that is late to ripen and often spends until November on the vine. It thrives in Campania as the exclusive variety in the age-worthy red wine called Taurasi. Aglianico also has great success in the volcanic soils of Basilicata where it makes the robust, Aglianico del Vulture. Somm Secret—The name “Aglianico” bears striking resemblance to Ellenico, the Italian word for "Greek," but no evidence shows it has Greek ancestry. However, it first appeared in Italy around an ancient Greek colony located in present-day Avellino, Campania.
Inhabiting the arch of Italy’s boot, this southern, mountainous region has a relatively small amount of vineyard area under vine. Basilicata has one DOCG for its prized red grape, Aglianico, Aglianico del Vulture Superior, which is limited to the slopes of an extinct volcano. The best whites are made of Malvasia bianca.