This wine region of Italy located in the south of the peninsula, Basilicata, whose name comes from the Greek "Basilikos" which means royal, is one of the poorest areas of Italy. The culture of the vine is present since the Antiquity with first the Greeks and then the Romans.
Under different dominations through the centuries, Basilicata has always continued to work the vine even if it is necessary to wait until the years 1990-2000 to observe profound changes as in many other wine-producing regions of the country.
Nestled between Campania, Puglia and Calabria, Basilicata is bordered by the Ionian Sea to the south and the Tyrrhenian Sea to the west. On the western side, the region is rather mountainous with the end of the Apennine chain and is made up of plains on the east. It is divided into two provinces, Potenza in the west, whose city of the same name is the capital, and Matera in the east. In the mountainous areas the climate is quite cool; in the rest of the region it is more Mediterranean with particularly hot and dry summers. The soil typology is predominantly volcanic and calcareous.
The majority of the grape varieties are Aglianico, a red grape variety that gives structured wines. There are also more national varieties such as Montepulciano, Sangiovese and Malvasia Noire. For the whites, there is White Malvasia and Moscato.
With approximately 10,900 hectares of vineyards, Basilicata is a small country. There are very few large estates, but on the contrary, many small producers with small planted areas. It has one DOCG and 4 DOC.
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Potenza
Matera, Potenza
10'900 ha
80'000 hl
1,6%
Source: ISTAT, Federdoc
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