Wineries

Azienda Vinicola Paternoster

Since the beginning of the latest century our family has been constantly devoted to vinegrowing and winemaking in the Vulture area.

Grandfather Anselmo, the first author of the success of the house, taking over the noble art of wine making from his father, decided in 1925 (a date still visible on the company’s door), to put up for sale the first bottles of Aglianico, until then produced for a family and friendly consumption. Some label types, photos and other tools of the period are still jealously guarded by us.

This was the beginning, almost involuntary, of a dignified enterprise, now in its third generation, with absolute respect for tradition, the historical context, the place and the environment.

The total production is around 150,000 bottles a year, whose number is strictly kept the same, in order to ensure over time a level of quality that allows us to turn to a medium–high target of consumers, lovers of quality.

Numerous are the awards won over the years both in Italy and abroad, as well as numerous are the articles in the trade press that recognize to the company the first great merits of spreading Aglianico, as well as recognizing it as a point of reference in the entire Vulture area. Despite the market and of image consensus, the spirit and the philosophy of the company remain unchanged, very linked to the territory, especially in Barile, the center of ancient vinegrowing and winemaking vocations, as evidenced by the Wineres area, a picturesque site that consists of over a hundred ancient wine cellars dug into the tuff representing the symbol of the art of wine making in Barile.

Basilisco

For millennia, the majestic volcano Vulture has been vigiling on this territory, feeding a simple, spontaneous viticulture, scattered with small vines in sheds.

In the seventh century BC, the Greeks introduced here the Hellanica vine – later called “Aglianico”, in Spanish pronunciation – that found in this land, fiercely sloping and with intense minerals, the ideal place to produce fruit.

The magical beauty of these places seduced the Albanian refugees who, in the fifteenth century, settled here fleeing due to the Turkish threat. They dug long caves into the tuff as shelters, creating – in the core of the lava flows – the traditional wine cellars where even today Aglianico del Vulture is vinified.

In its wines, Basilisco concentrates today the spirit of this land, its simple but immense wealth, its timeless tradition.

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