Wine Description
Manual selection of the best grapes in the field, they are put into crates and brought to the cellar within a few hours, followed by secondary selection carried out by our Selectiv ‘Process Winery of Volentieri-Pellenc, the linear destemming system that allows us to eliminate any residue green maintaining the best integrity of the berries and allowing us to use only the berries that reached the perfect phenolic maturity.
Terroir:
Daginestra comes from a single parcel of 1.4 hectares and 80 years of age located in the municipality of Ginestra, a company cru. The soil is mainly sandy with a strong presence of volcanic ash mixed with lower percentages of limestone and clays that give the ground a gray color.
Soft destemming in a 5.500 litres vat barrel of Slavonian oak where fermentation takes place with a temperature that never exceeds 28 degrees, followed by a period of maceration on the skins that reaches and pass the 60 days in which the malolactic fermentation takes place. It ages in Slavonian oak for the next 12/18 months. Aging in the bottle for at least 12 months. The wine has a great cellar potential of up to 20 years. 
Tasting notes
Intense and bright red ruby color with nuances of crispy red fruits, mineral, cocoa, rose, mint and green leaves. On the palate the wine has an ample and determined minerality with considerable structure, supported by fine tannins and a good acidity, with a long and persistent finish.  
About the Estate
The Grifalco company was founded in 2004 by the desire of Fabrizio and Cecilia Piccin to start a new path after having produced Nobile di Montepulciano for 20 years, focusing on what is considered the most important grape variety in southern Italy; the project is currently carried out by their sons Lorenzo and Andrea.
The company has a surface of 16 hectares with age of the vineyards ranging from 10 years up to 80 years, divided into several municipalities of the Vulture, this because being able to work with different land allows you to have greater complexity in the wines that are produced.
To date, the vineyards are located in the municipalities of Maschito, Forenza, Ginestra and Venosa, where the cellar also resides.