FLORENCE, ITALY – At the premiere Italian wine festival presented by the Italy-America Chamber of Commerce West, The North American Sommelier Association the winerie D’Angelo from Basilicata: in the small Southern Italian region of Basilicata, the winery D’Angelo represents the true history of Aglianico Del Vulture, also known as ‘The Barolo of the South’. Founded around the 1930’s, the winery possesses some of the oldest and best vineyard sites alongside the Vulture volcano, which imparts tremendously unique character to the wines made here. Indeed D’Angelo’s concentration is on this noble grape of Southern Italy. Almost their entire production concentrates on different expressions and single-vineyards of this true gem in Italian enology.
The wines: Aglianico Del Vulture DOC 2008, grapes: 100% Aglianico; tasting notes:Garnet red with ruby hues. Intense and complex nose of ash, mediterranean herbs, prunes, earth and tons of oriental spices. On the palate it’s zesty and focused, with vibrant acidity, elegant tannins and an extremely well balanced alcoholic note.Very persistent finish.
Vigna Caselle’ Aglianico Del Vulture Riserva DOC 2004; grapes: 100% Aglianico; tasting notes: from old vines and a dedicated single-vineyard situated on the higher slopes of the Vulturte volcano, comes this Riserva expression of Aglianico Del Vulture. Intense and elegant on the nose, with great complexity and age. Dried cherries, prunes, brush vegetation and a strong minerality of lava rock. Intense and very persistent on the palate, with soft tannins, great balance and a very long finish.
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Very interesting info!Perfect just what I was searching for! W Bruce
Very interesting info!Perfect just what I was searching for!
Greeting from over the world. precise post I shall return for more.
it’s a bloggy blog world, isn’t it? :-)blogging and the vitaurl family and community that comes with it represent such a wonderful marriage of technology and the human spirit. I remember when you first wrote to me, way back in 2007, and I realized that having a blog meant also belonging to this community. That was back when my blog was a mere umami blog. Yet, by revealing my palate to others, it opened up a whole new world to me (and to all of us) in ways I never could have imagined. As it turns out, people who have similar tastes in wine, similar palates, tend to be well suited for each other, no? We just didn’t have a medium to find each other before blogging. Thanks for the shout out, man… And thanks for being in touch, way back when in 2007. Good things continue to come from it… :-)abbraccio