Campanica | Monitoring Italy's Campania region around Naples

HYPERPINIAN AND HIS BIG BROTHERS Taurasi DOCG, located in southern Italy’s Campania region, produces complex, age-worthy wines, most famously from Aglianico, a local red grape. “The origin of vineyards in the Taurasi area dates back to the Etruscan period, where the vines were grown at heights with different shapes”. These ancient techniques, colloquially called ‘starseta’ or ‘raggiera’, intersperse vines among cover crops, grains, olive groves, nut trees, and fruit orchards. How ‘promiscuous agriculture’ is driving Taurasi | The Drinks Business