2016 | Elena Fucci | Aglianico del Vulture Titolo

Red Wine: 2016 | Elena Fucci | Aglianico del Vulture Titolo
Dark and intense ruby red with an ample and complex nose yielding ethereal spices, cherry, blackberry preserves, rosemary, tobacco and cinnamon with light hints of vanilla. Dry on the palate and full bodied with firm tannins and a long finish.
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Producer: Elena Fucci
Ratings: WA | 94 WE | 92
Vintage: 2016
Size: 750ml
ABV: 14%
Varietal: Aglianico
Country/Region: Italy, Basilicata
Dark and intense ruby red with an ample and complex nose yielding ethereal spices, cherry, blackberry preserves, rosemary, tobacco and cinnamon with light hints of vanilla. Dry on the palate and full bodied with firm tannins and a long finish.
Reviews:
Wine Advocate: Elena Fucci’s 2016 Aglianico del Vulture Titolo is a wine built for the long haul. It should continue its steady evolution over the next 20 years if not more. Stitched together with enormous precision, the wine offers balanced intensity and a beautiful level of fruit purity that speaks both to the Aglianico grape and the extreme territory that shapes it. This vintage finishes on a dry note with fine texture and elegantly integrated tannins. The wine is aged in barrique for 12 months, of which half is new oak with various levels of toast. The vines range from 50 to 70 years old and are planted up to 650 meters above sea level.
Wine Enthusiast: A delightful mix of crushed rock, red berries, pink peppercorn and violet drive the nose. There’s polish to the palate, where coiled red-berry fruit is propelled along an immensely tangy river of crushed stones. It’s a stripped back expression of the variety that shows elegance and power in tandem.
Producer Information
Perched above the famous Villa Rotondo, the Fucci property towers over the heart of the Aglianico del Vulture area in Basilicata. At 650 meters of altitude the soil is pure black volcanic lava, also locally known as ‘pozzolana’. “Titolo” is the name of this Lava channel or “costone”, which came down from the now extinct Vulture volcano. Nobody owns vineyards located higher than the Fucci’s, no winery harvests later than the Fucci’s, making these Aglianico grapes the last grapes harvested in all of Europe for dry red wine making!