Vigne Mastrodomenico is a family estate in Barile, on the eastern slopes of Mount Vulture in Basilicata, farming eight organically certified hectares of Aglianico across the Acquarossa cru of nearby Rapolla. Cellars carved into the volcanic tuff sit beside vineyards inside an EU Special Protection Area, and the Aglianico del Vulture DOC bottling Likos has drawn 90+ scores from Vinous and Robert Parker. Tastings and vineyard walks run year-round in the tuff caves under Barile.
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A sit-down tasting of the Vigne Mastrodomenico range inside the volcanic tuff cellars under Barile. The chambers are hand-cut into the rock and stay naturally cool year-round, which the family uses as the setting for a guided walk through the wines, from the IGT Basilicata Mos and the Aglianico rosato Fonte del Ceraso to the flagship Aglianico del Vulture DOC Likos.
Book this experienceA guided walk through the Acquarossa vineyards on the western flank of Mount Vulture, inside an EU Special Protection Area for biodiversity. The walk explains how the family farms the eight hectares of organic Aglianico that go into the Likos and Mos bottlings, and ends with an open-air tasting of the Aglianico-based range.
Book this experienceA sit-down tasting of the Vigne Mastrodomenico range inside the volcanic tuff cellars under Barile. The chambers are hand-cut into the rock and stay naturally cool year-round, which the family uses as the setting for a guided walk through the wines, from the IGT Basilicata Mos and the Aglianico rosato Fonte del Ceraso to the flagship Aglianico del Vulture DOC Likos.
Book this experienceThe estate sits in the Vulture, a volcanic massif in northern Basilicata where Aglianico vines grow on tuff and ash soils far from the better-known wine centres of Italy. Vigne Mastrodomenico's home cellars are dug straight into the volcanic tuff under the small town of Barile, while the family's eight hectares of vines are planted a short drive away in the Acquarossa Piano della Mezzana cru, on the western flank of Mount Vulture, in the Rapolla countryside. The estate is the work of Donato Mastrodomenico, a Puglia-born agronomist whose neighbours call him 'il Professore'. In the late 1970s, he led the conversion of vineyards at Notarchirico in the Venosa countryside, helping power the wider Aglianico del Vulture revival. In the late 1990s, he planted the Acquarossa vineyard on land his Lucanian wife Dina Grimolizzi brought into the family. Today his children Giuseppe and Emanuela work the cellar with him, and every Vigne Mastrodomenico bottle is still farmed and made by the founding family. Vine work is certified organic. The Acquarossa vineyard sits inside an EU Special Protection Area for biodiversity, and the family farm to that brief: no synthetic herbicides or fertilisers, cover crops between the rows, and a deliberately slow approach in the cellar. In 2011, Giuseppe (an engineer trained at the Politecnico di Torino) brought the estate into the EU-funded Farm to Fork pilot, and every Vigne Mastrodomenico vintage since then ships with a QR code that exposes pedoclimatic data, harvest date, ageing and bottling. The flagship is Likos, an Aglianico del Vulture DOC red built for the long haul: Vinous awarded the 2015 vintage 92 points, Robert Parker 91, and the same wine took the top prize at Radici del Sud in 2019. Likos Premiere sits above it as a more selective cuvee. Mos, an IGT Basilicata, frames Aglianico in a more accessible style; Fonte del Ceraso is a varietal Aglianico rosato; Shekar is the rare Aglianico passito, a slow late-harvest dessert wine that won the Medusa Awards 'Italy Excellence' in 2015. Visits split between the tuff caves under Barile, a sit-down tasting in the cool hand-cut volcanic galleries, and a guided walk through the Acquarossa vineyards inside the Special Protection Area, ending with an open-air tasting overlooking Mount Vulture. Both formats are bookable through the estate's partner channel.
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