Elena Fucci Aglianico del Vulture Titolo: 2000-2014
BY IAN D’AGATA |
There are moments in life when you immediately realize you have stumbled upon something or someone special. And so it was for me when I first met Salvatore Fucci back in the spring of 2002. I was introduced to him by Vito Paternoster (of the Paternoster estate) and found the then middle-aged physical education teacher likeable, humble, very sensible in his approach to winemaking, and, most importantly, very proud and knowledgeable about the Vulture volcano and its great variety, Aglianico. Fucci was born into a family that had a long tradition of winemaking but had never estate-bottled before. I was meeting him that day to taste the first vintage bottled under his own label. One taste of his 2000 Aglianico del Vulture made an instant believer out of me. It was already clear back then that this fledgling winery was able to produce wines that were cleaner, deeper and more refined than almost any other wine being made on the Vulture at that time.
Elena Fucci with her parents and husband Andrea in the cellar
The Estate and its only Wine
