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Cantine del Notaio

Rionero in Vulture · Potenza (PZ)
← Basilicata
Established
1998
Gerardo Giuratrabocchetti (with his wife Marcella)
Yearly production
Location
Rionero in Vulture
Potenza (PZ) · Basilicata
Vineyard area
About 26 hectares across the Vulture on volcanic soils; wines age in 17th-century tuff caves once dug by Franciscan monks at Rionero in Vulture.

Appellations

Aglianico del Vulture DOCAglianico del Vulture Superiore DOCG

History

Cantine del Notaio was founded in 1998 by Gerardo Giuratrabocchetti, an agricultural scientist who left academia to revive his family's seven-generation viticultural tradition on the extinct Vulture volcano. Ageing his Aglianico in ancient monks' tuff caves, he built a Basilicata benchmark, with labels named for notarial acts, La Firma, Il Sigillo, Il Rogito and L'Autentico.

Wines

Illustrative selection
Il Sigillo
Aglianico del Vulture Superiore DOCG
La Firma
Aglianico del Vulture DOC
Il Rogito
Aglianico del Vulture DOC
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