I recently read how much the Italian wine aglianico was making a name for itself in the US, and here’s another example of the Italian product being increasingly appreciated.
Paola Jadeluca from Repubblica Affari & Finanza has cited a New York Times article in which the famous wine journalist Eric Asimov looks at the Aglianico del Vulture wine from Basilicata.
The red wine, in particular the Carato Venusio from the Cantina sociale di Venosa (a co-operative cellar) is said to be able to compete with the best of Chianti, Brunello and Barolo.
The fame that Carato Venusio has given to the Aglianico del Vulture name in northern Europe, England and Denmark, now takes to America.
At Venosa more than 900 ha of vineyards belong to 500 different collaborators, with the largest having only 15 ha.
Working together, with an investment of two and a half million euros and an effort called “the bottle project”, they’ve taken the base value wine at only 10 USD to the pages of the New York Times.