Aglianico del Vulture Gricos 2021, Grifalco
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This is a full bodied wine, but made in a fresher style. The fruit notes are quite dark: black berries, currants and black plums, followed by a bit of eucalyptus, giving you the sense that you’re walking through the forest, picking wild berries. The acid is just present enough to make this a great food wine, but not so persistent that it requires food. And the tannic structure is firm, but perfectly integrated, so it’s dry but not too dry.
About the Winery
After over 20 years of making wine in Tuscany, Fabrizio and Cecilia Piccin went in search of a different location with ideal conditions to begin a new winery project. They settled on Basilicata, home of the Vulture volcano, and founded the Grifalco winery in 2004. This region has ideal conditions for planting the Aglianico variety, and theirs is some of the best. Upon looking at the image of the bird on the bottle, one might think it was an image of a vulture; alas, it is not. The name “Grifalco” is a tribute to the family’s past and present. It combines the griffin, the symbol of the Piccin’s original home of Montepulciano in Tuscany, and the falcon, the symbol of Monte Vulture, their adopted home. They make four wines, including two single vineyard bottlings (Damaschito and Daginestra), and they consider Gricos to be the best representation of the region’s potential for Aglianico.