£48.00
Inc. VAT (£6.40/100ml)
Estate & TerroirIrpinia, Avellino
Mastroberardino
The custodians of Aglianico — keepers of Campania's 'Barolo of the South.'
AglianicoFiano di AvellinoGreco di Tufo
The Estate Story
A family rooted in Irpinia
The custodians of Aglianico — keepers of Campania's 'Barolo of the South.'
Founded in Atripalda in 1878, the Mastroberardino family are widely credited with saving Campania's native grapes from extinction in the decades after phylloxera and the Second World War. Where others grafted over to international varieties, the Mastroberardinis kept Aglianico, Fiano and Greco alive on their own roots.
Their Taurasi 'Radici' Riserva — first vinified the year the estate opened — earned the estate its reputation as the guardian of Aglianico. Luigi first tasted the 2016 vintage from cask with Piero Mastroberardino in 2018, and it has anchored our red cellar ever since.
Mastroberardino is one of the independent estates Luigi & Jo Di Caprio visit each harvest, tasting from barrel to bottle before a single case ships to our Surrey bonded cellar.
The Terroir
The soil that shapes the wine
The Radici vineyard climbs the hills above Atripalda on ancient volcanic clay laid down by Vesuvius and the Campi Flegrei. The high altitude brings cold nights that lock acidity and aromatics into the Aglianico, while the mineral-rich subsoil gives the wine its telltale flint and liquorice edge.
SoilVolcanic clay and limestone over compressed tufo bedrock
Altitude400–550m on the Irpinian hills
ClimateContinental — cold Apennine winters and long, sunlit ripening
From the Winemaker
Piero Mastroberardino
Aglianico is a patient grape. We give Radici more than thirty months in Slavonian oak and a further year in bottle before release — it is a wine built to outlive us.
From Our Cellar
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