Luigi Tecce 'Satyricon' Campania Aglianico 2021

Strangely enough, the “Prince of Taurasi”, wasn’t groomed to be a farmer or vignaiolo. After university, Luigi Tecce worked in Rome as an assistant to a member of the Italian parliament. Then in 1997, his father suddenly passed away and it prompted Luigi’s return to the fourth generation farmhouse to take care of the family’s property, which included olive trees, goats, sheep, and of course vines. The nature of the circumstance left no time for any practical knowledge to be handed down to him from his father or grandfather. He didn’t know how to manage the property, let alone how to vinify grapes. He did have many memories from living there as a child, and these guided him down this new road of massive learning curves. The family’s property is located within the Taurasi appellation (known as the “Barolo of the south”), in a subzone known as Sud-Alta Valle, distinguished for its late harvest, altitude, and unique soil mix of sand, limestone and Vesuvius’ pumice. Tecce’s 80+ year old vin