Italy

Aglianico del Vulture

Full

Cork

Viviana Malafarina is the reflective, intelligent and deeply perceptive winemaker behind the Basilisco wines. Originally from Liguria, she has traded the oceans of old Genoa for the quiet drama of the Vulture volcano. Storico is an old-vine site with Aglianico vines over 80 years old on volcanic ash and sand. She makes just two barrels of this monumental red, and the liquid inside is knotty, layered and enigmatic. Intense tobacco and pepper lead into blackcurrant, damson and liquorice, complicated by the medicinal twang of fresh juniper, the resinous oils of rosemary needles, and the piney depth of fresh oregano. Potent and shadowed, it carries with it the latent chaos of the volcano.

Aglianico

Basilisco, Storico, Aglianico del Vulture, Superiore, Basilicata, Italy, 2013

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Viviana Malafarina is the reflective, intelligent and deeply perceptive winemaker behind the Basilisco wines. Originally from Li

Oaked

Basilisco, Storico, Aglianico del Vulture, Superiore, Campania, Italy, 2013

75cl

Jason Millar

Basilisco

Basilicata

Basilisco, Storico, Aglianico del Vulture, Superiore, 2013

Still

Basilisco, Storico, Aglianico del Vulture, Superiore, Campania, Italy, 2013

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