AZIENDA AGRICOLA ELENA FUCCI

 

Contrada Solagna del titolo. BARILE (PZ)

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AGLIANICO DEL VULTURE DOC

Fundation: 2000

Elena Fucci (owner-winemaker-winegrower)

Viticulture: Organic

Only 6 ha of vineyards 50-70 years old S-SE exposed.  650m altitude.

Volcanic soils: Volcanic layers: lava, lapilli, ash and layers of clay.

Short Guyot (Capanno Vulturino). Harvest: End October-first November

Vinification: Selection of grapes, destemming and wine to brew in whole nearly steel tank at controlled temperature with soaking on the skins during the time of the alcoholic fermentation (12-13 days) continuos delestages and pumping. Passage in barrels for malolactic fermentation. FML in french oak.

Maturation: 12 months in French oak barrels 200 liters (1st-2nd use), expressly made for Titolo. 12 months in bottles pre-market.

28000 bottles. 200 Magnum. 33 Jeroboam.

14% abv

 

 

TASTING -AD HOC-

APPEARANCE

The wine is clear, pale, ruby coloured, with tears, and medium gliceric legs. Some purple brightness. The bottle present a very good natural cork, and some information in the backlabel. Titolo is the place, the village.

NOSE

The wine is clean, pronounced intensity.

Volcanic, earthy, leather, vegetal tobacco (dry sheets) aromas.

Otherwise, flowers (roses, violets), and red cherry,  hues of strawberry jam, not sweet or volatils.

Note: A little bit of reduction, but is dissipated soon.

PALATE

Good first impression.

High acidity and tannins (high quantity of new wood) that show a baby in your “mouthattack”, dry, medium plus alcohol. It presents a medium young body.

Oaky, Stony and mineral. Earthy flavours, irony and thyme.

Good medium volumen, some vertical palate, straight and some igneous rocks and slate maybe.

Medium+ rocky finish, with berries (blackberry, blackcurrant) and red plum.

 

Tasting after 24 HOURS

First of all,….the volcano: spicy, earthy, phosphorus, sulfur, mineral, stony. It smells deep, and I love this aromas, with high-pronounced intensity.

Dry and high in tannins in palate. The Acidity is high.

Notes of Red plum, red cherry, blackberry, cocoa, earthy, tobacco and mineral, some roughly textures in post-palate.

Medium+ finish.

 

CONCLUSIONS

The wine needs tranquility, develop, time. It is young, with good aromas and flavours, but the wood(oak) is present and the tannins, so green, are present. It is a potential wine,and to opinate I would need to taste an old Titolo, to write about its evolution.

Now the tannins are showing the potential. The wood is present and not yet integrated totally, but with high potential in the next 10 years.

 

PAIRING ad hoc
Hare stew with shallots, cocoa, thyme infusion and spearmint.

 

 

RATES                                 POINTS

FIRST IMPRESSION               90                                                                                                                                          

1 HOUR                                   92                            

PACKAGING                            93                                                 

QUALITY/PRICE                      95                                                                  

24 HOURS                               93+