Azienda Agricola Musto Carmelitano works four hectares of Aglianico in Maschito, on the eastern slopes of Mount Vulture in Basilicata. Siblings Elisabetta and Luigi Carmelitano have run the third-generation estate since 2005, farming organically and vinifying with indigenous yeasts only, no fining and no stabilising agents. The cellar in the village centre opens to wine tourists Thursday to Sunday, with four bookable experiences from a 15-euro tasting at the Vineria La Chiazza to a 45-euro Premium tour through the Serra del Prete and Pian del Moro crus.
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Full vineyard, cellar and tasting itinerary. Guided tour of the Serra del Prete and Pian del Moro crus by car and on foot, cellar visit covering vinification, ageing and bottling, and a sit-down tasting of seven wines paired with Lucanian salumi, cheeses and hot regional dishes. Runs Thursday to Sunday, around two and a half hours, minimum four guests. Translator available on request.
Book this experienceWalk through the estate vineyards, visit to the cellar covering vinification and ageing, and a sit-down tasting of five wines paired with Lucanian salumi, cheeses and other regional products. Runs Thursday to Sunday, around two and a half hours.
Book this experienceA shorter introduction to the estate: a walk between the vine rows, a cellar visit covering vinification, ageing and refinement, and a tasting of three wines with a board of typical Lucanian salumi and cheeses. Runs Thursday to Sunday, around two and a half hours.
Book this experienceInformal tasting of three estate wines with a board of Lucanian salumi and cheeses, served at the family wine bar in central Maschito (Via Marconi 13). Open every day except Tuesday and Wednesday, evenings only.
Book this experienceFull vineyard, cellar and tasting itinerary. Guided tour of the Serra del Prete and Pian del Moro crus by car and on foot, cellar visit covering vinification, ageing and bottling, and a sit-down tasting of seven wines paired with Lucanian salumi, cheeses and hot regional dishes. Runs Thursday to Sunday, around two and a half hours, minimum four guests. Translator available on request.
Book this experienceMusto Carmelitano sits in Maschito, a hill village on the eastern slopes of Mount Vulture in Basilicata. The volcano's pyroclastic tuff threaded with ash and lapilli is the same volcanic substrate that gives Aglianico del Vulture DOC its signature mineral grip across the surrounding crus. The estate has been in the family for more than three generations, and is run today by siblings Elisabetta and Luigi Carmelitano, who took over from their parents in 2005 and lead the modern phase of the cellar with consulting enologist Sebastiano Fortunato.
The farm covers thirteen hectares, of which four are planted to Aglianico and the rest given over to seminative crops under the same organic regime. The vineyards are split across three named crus on Mount Vulture's eastern lip: Serra del Prete, Pian del Moro and Vernava. Pian del Moro is the oldest plot and supplies the estate's most age-worthy red. Fruit is hand-harvested in October, with farming carried out under organic protocols and the EU organic mark carried on the bottles.
The cellar was built in 2006 in the centre of Maschito, surrounded by fruit trees and the family's organic vegetable gardens, and was extended in 2023 with a panoramic terrace for visitors. Stainless steel and concrete tanks share the space with a small barrel cellar of French oak tonneaux for the top cuvees, and a glass-walled tasting room overlooks the working area. Elisabetta and Luigi handle every stage themselves, with Sebastiano Fortunato consulting on the vinifications.
Vinification is uncompromisingly low-intervention. Grapes are picked by hand and fermented spontaneously with indigenous yeasts; selected yeasts, fining and stabilising agents are not used. Sulphur dioxide is held to a minimum across the range, and the Etichetta Bianca and Dhjete cuvees are bottled with no added sulphur at all. Macerations on Aglianico run between ten and fifteen days. Serra del Prete then ages twelve months in steel and twelve in concrete, while Pian del Moro takes twelve months in steel followed by twelve months in 500-litre French oak tonneaux, before a further twelve months in bottle.
The reference Aglianico is Pian del Moro, drawn from the oldest vineyard and bottled under the Aglianico del Vulture Superiore DOCG. Serra del Prete is a more accessible single-cru Aglianico del Vulture DOC, while Maschitano Rosso is the lighter, younger-vines DOC. The estate also makes a direct-press Maschitano Rosato IGT Basilicata from Aglianico, two still Moscato whites from cooler plots above the village, and Dhjete, an Albanian-named Moscato pet-nat refermented in bottle as a tribute to the family's tenth vintage and to the rural sparkling tradition of the Vulture.
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