Elena Fucci, Aglianico del Vulture, 2004
A volcanic Aglianico with two decades of bottle age — and still going strong. Elena Fucci's Titolo comes from six hectares planted at 600 meters on the slopes of Mount Vulture, the extinct volcano whose pozzolanic soils give Basilicata's Aglianico its unmistakable smoky-mineral spine. Elena took over her grandfather Generoso's vineyard in 2000 and built the estate around a single bottling. The 2004, her first sizeable commercial release, was made from one of the great early-century Vulture vintages. Twenty-one years on, the chewy black-fruited tannins have softened into something darkly polished — leather, ash, dried Mediterranean herbs, balsamic — and the volcanic minerality holds the whole thing taut. A mature wine drinking right in its window.
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A volcanic Aglianico with two decades of bottle age — and still going strong. Elena Fucci's Titolo comes from six hectares planted at 600 meters on the slopes of Mount Vulture, the extinct volcano whose pozzolanic soils give Basilicata's Aglianico its unmistakable smoky-mineral spine. Elena took over her grandfather Generoso's vineyard in 2000 and built the estate around a single bottling. The 2004, her first sizeable commercial release, was made from one of the great early-century Vulture vintages. Twenty-one years on, the chewy black-fruited tannins have softened into something darkly polished — leather, ash, dried Mediterranean herbs, balsamic — and the volcanic minerality holds the whole thing taut. A mature wine drinking right in its window.
