Est. 2000 
5 wines 
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Discover Titolo World
Two-hour estate visit at Contrada Solagna del Titolo with a vineyard walk and a structured flight of current Titolo releases poured by the winery team.
Book this experienceElena Fucci Winery
Basilicata, ItalyElena Fucci farms six hectares of old Aglianico vines on the eastern slopes of Monte Vulture, the dormant volcano whose pozzolana, lava and lapilli soils define the appellation. Founded in 2000, the estate at Contrada Solagna del Titolo sits at 600 metres above Barile, working a single grape and a single wine, Titolo, that has become a benchmark for Aglianico del Vulture.
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Basilicata
- Est. 2000
- 5 wines
- Tastings
- Tours
- Accommodation
- Booking required
Wines from Elena Fucci Winery
Experiences at Elena Fucci Winery
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Discover Titolo World & Old Vintage
Two-hour estate visit that pairs current Titolo releases with one or more older vintages drawn from the cellar's library, including a vineyard walk.
Book this experienceDiscover Titolo World Complete
Two-hour comprehensive estate visit covering current Titolo releases, library vintages and the broader Titolo line including Pink Edition, Amphora and Riserva.
Book this experienceDiscover Titolo World
Two-hour estate visit at Contrada Solagna del Titolo with a vineyard walk and a structured flight of current Titolo releases poured by the winery team.
Book this experienceAbout Elena Fucci Winery
The estate's story begins in the 1960s, when Generoso Fucci bought the highest parcels of Contrada Solagna del Titolo, on the eastern flank of Monte Vulture. For three decades, the family farmed the vines and sold the fruit; the wine itself came later. In 2000, faced with a decision to sell the six hectares as her parents weighed retirement, Elena Fucci kept the land and turned the harvest into a single bottling. She studied oenology while she made her first vintage, and from 2004 she has run winemaking herself.
Solagna del Titolo sits at 600 metres on the eastern slope of an extinct volcano that rises to 1,326 metres above the Vulture plain. The vineyard soils read as a stratigraphy of eruptions: dark pozzolana, lapilli, lava and ash interleaved with clay. Vines planted by Elena's grandfather and great-grandfather are now between 55 and 70 years old, with the oldest parcel approaching seven decades. The combination of altitude, mineral-rich volcanic substrate and a continental microclimate gives Aglianico a longer hang time and a colder fermentation window than the plain below.
Farming follows the rhythm of the vines. Cover-crop favino is sown on alternating rows for nitrogen, vines are trained in short Guyot, alberello and the local capanno vulturino, and chemical inputs are kept out of the cellar so total sulphites stay under 2 mg per litre. The estate originally chose a single grape and a single wine on the principle that Aglianico from these specific parcels needs no blending partner and no second label to express the volcano. Older vintages remain classified Aglianico del Vulture DOC; recent bottlings carry the DOCG Superiore.
Titolo has expanded into a small family of expressions without losing the single-cru focus. Titolo Classico is the founding wine, aged 24 months in 200-litre French oak barriques and 12 months in bottle. Titolo Superiore and Titolo Riserva extend the elevage to three and five years respectively, drawing on the oldest 70-year-old parcel; Titolo by Amphora, Titolo Pink Edition and the Titolo grappa explore different formats from the same Aglianico. Reviews from Robert Parker's Monica Larner, Jancis Robinson, Antonio Galloni at Vinous and Gambero Rosso's Grand Cru d'Italia have placed the cellar among the international references for southern Italian wine.
Visiting Solagna del Titolo means arriving at a working farm that has stayed inside one family across three generations. The cellar receives guests on the same parcel where the grapes are grown, with views across the Vulture vineyards to the volcano itself. Three structured tastings are bookable directly through the estate, all running two hours and priced from 30 to 45 euro per person.
Visiting Elena Fucci Winery
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Plan your visit
Contrada Solagna del Titolo, 85022 Barile (Potenza), Basilicata, Italy
Plate I · BASILICATA
Elena Fucci Winery on the Basilicata wine atlas
What Elena Fucci Winery makes
Elena Fucci Winery's current bottle selection is easiest to understand through Aglianico.
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Common questions
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Azienda Agricola Elena Fucci is at Contrada Solagna del Titolo, 85022 Barile, in the province of Potenza, on the eastern flank of Monte Vulture in Basilicata. The vineyards sit at around 600 metres above sea level on the volcanic slopes of the dormant cone.
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