BASILICATA

Small is beautiful

A little light info to get us all started on BASILICATA:

Regional Vineyard:

Total Vineyard Size

5,567 hectares is the total regional vineyard size including vineyards producing grapes for Quality wines, Table wines & Table grapes

Dedicated to Quality

1,584 hectares are dedicated to producing grapes for Quality wines.

Notable Cru/Zones:

Melfi

Matera

Grottino di Rocca Nova

Terre dell Alta Val d’Agri

Vulture*

Hillside locations at 200-600 metres above sea level is where you’ll find Aglianico del Vulture varietals delivering DOC & DOCG grades… 100%! Home of the only DOCG in Basilicata

Wine Style/Quality:

% RED

79.7%

% WHITE

20.3%

% DOP / IGP

Most recent figures from 2013 indicate an estimated 21% of wines from Basilicata are produced according to EU DOP Quality standards. The region produces 5 DOP wines of which there is 1 DOCG and 4 DOC wines. They also produce 1 IGP wines accounting for 15.7% of production. Table wines account for 63% of output.

BASILICATA- NATIVE GRAPES

As always, a number of the regions native grape varieties are used only for blending purposes. That said, we’ve listed those grapes which we understand might be available as mono-varietals or which are important blenders. Naturally as we make our own discovery we’ll update these lists.

NATIVE REDS

AGLIANICO*

This grape is a bloom dusted, midnight blue/black, beauty. If you’re looking for 100% AGLIANICO varietals then for sure you’ll find them under Aglianico del Vulture DOC/DOCG. Truly ageworthy.

AGLIANCONE

MALVASIA NERA DI BASILICATA

TAMURRO

NATIVE WHITES

MALVASIA BIANCA DI BASILICATA

OUR STATSOURCES

  • ISTAT – Italy’s Istituto Nazionale delle Statistiche (Census 2010 / Vineyard Production Figures 2013)
  • AIS – The Association of Italian Sommeliers
  • ‘I Numeri del Vino’ – Marco Baccaglio’s top Italian blog – lots of numbers :)
  • Wine Grapes – Robinson, Harding & Vouillamoz – lots of great grape stuff – BUY IT !
  • Native Wine Grapes of Italy – Ian D’Agata – extensive – Highly recommend purchase !
  • Lavinium – Italian wine, food & culture – Brilliant site. Only in Italian. Good reason to learn italian www.lavinium.com

Vintage information

All data is intended to be for indicative purposes only due to the variability from vintage to vintage. But we do try to keep ourselves reasonably updated :)

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