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Vinosia sits at Paternopoli, high in the Irpinia hills of inland Campania, at the heart of the Taurasi zone. Founded in 2004 by Luciano Ercolino, the estate works only native southern grapes, from Aglianico for Taurasi to Fiano, Greco and Falanghina, and ages its reds in a semi-underground cellar cut into the hillside.
Campania
Irpinia is the mountainous heart of inland Campania, a cold, high-altitude corner of the province of Avellino where winters bite and summers stay cool. The name traces back to the Latin hirpus, meaning wolf, a fair measure of how wild and remote this country can feel. Wine has been made here for centuries, and it tends to run austere and structured rather than soft, built for the table and for keeping rather than for an easy first sip.
Vinosia was founded at Paternopoli in 2004 by Luciano Ercolino, whose family had already played a part in the modern revival of Irpinian wine. Ercolino traces his own wine roots to a grandfather working the vines as far back as 1887, and he set out to make wine on his own terms, concentrating on the native grapes of the south. The estate is run as a family business, with the Ercolino name carried on every label.
The vineyards fall into two zones. The core sites climb the Irpinia hills to between 380 and 550 metres, planted to Aglianico for Taurasi alongside Fiano, Greco and Falanghina, on volcanic and rocky soils that swing sharply between warm days and cold nights. A second strand reaches south into the Salento in Puglia, worked with the Emera estate, where Negroamaro and Primitivo give Vinosia a warmer, coastal counterpoint to its cool Irpinian base.
Winemaking centres on a semi-underground cellar cut into the hillside, designed with the architect Alessandro Di Blasi so the surrounding rock holds a steady temperature and trims energy use. Fermentations lean on indigenous yeasts drawn from the estate's own vineyards, and the reds are aged in French oak with gentle micro-oxygenation. The estate has also built practical environmental measures into the site, among them photovoltaic panels, recovery of cellar wash water, and insulation it reports as saving around 60 tonnes of carbon dioxide a year.
On this site Vinosia is represented by its Irpinia benchmarks: the Santandrea Taurasi from Aglianico, the Le Grade Fiano di Avellino, and the L'Ariella Greco di Tufo, alongside Irpinia DOC bottlings such as the Fontana della Loggia Falanghina and the Neromora Aglianico, plus a Falanghina under the Beneventano IGT. Taken together, they set out the estate's case that Irpinia's native varieties, grown high and made with restraint, sit among Campania's most serious wines.
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Vinosia's current bottle selection is easiest to understand through Aglianico and Falanghina.
Est. 2004 
6 wines 
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