Martin Bergo

8.9

This wine is 100% Aglianico, from a 2-hectar plot with 80-year-old vines outside the village of Maschito. The wine is dark purple and a bit cloudy; a hauting minerality of cholrine-alkalinity and bloody notes of iron (although soil minerals don’t necessarily end up in the grape, it is interesting to note that the soil is vulcanic and rich in iron and magnesium), also in the nose is blackcurrant, dark cherries, and vanilla (15 months on oak). On the palate the wine is fruit-driven and has a prominent structure of high acids and very coarse teeth-clinging tannins, the mid-palate is weak, and the finish spicy, green, “liquoricy” and the iron-blood notes lingers for a few seconds. This is no Taurasi, but an interesting and tasty wine. — 4 years ago

M. Christopher Roebuck

9.3

Recommended by the waiter. My son's 14th birthday in Matera. Solid choice, please excuse the lack of notes

93 points — 5 years ago

Joni Hedgpeth

10

Wood burning fire, volcanic fiery aroma, sweet basil, peppercorn, daffodil, fleur di sil, Lush and full, peppery, acid structure. Super tannic very dry. Pure delight. — 6 years ago

Joni Hedgpeth

9.1

Like a little Taurasi, Funk, Mushroom, basement concrete, Lush and savory on the palate, full and well structured French Wood tannen. — 6 years ago