TENUTA I GELSI

The Tenuta i Gelsi winery was founded in 2003 to enhance the family’s 10-hectare viticultural heritage and the Basilicata territory for naturalistic and scenic beauty. The name derives from the centuries-old “Mulberry” trees that line the driveway to the estate, planted for the harvest of fruit but especially the leaves used to feed the silkworm raised in the sixties on the same estate. The winery is located in the Vulture in the hamlet of Monticchio Bagni. It is the Vulture side that overlooks the Ofanto Valley at an altitude of about 450 meters with volcanic deposits and a sandy clay soil. Ruggiero Potito firmly believed in the ability of his land to give priceless fruits such as Aglianico del Vulture, introverted, grumpy, surly but also capable of great sweetness and delicacy with the passage of time.