Arteteke Franco 2014

Franco is a red wine produced in Melfi, in Vulture, by Arteteke, and obtained from pure Aglianico grapes coming from approximately 35-year-old vines positioned on clayey-limestone soil. Fermentation is spontaneous by indigenous yeasts with 7-day maceration in cement. For refinement we proceed in large, almost exhausted wood, and finally in bottles. Franco is a wine with a truly broad and complex nose that opens with hints of red petal flowers and berries, and then turns to balsamic and spicy, mineral and roasted notes. In the mouth it is soft and fleshy, elegant, with gentle tannins and a long finish. To try with game

Manufacturer: Arteteke

Frank

️ Melfi, Vulture, Basilicata

Arteteke

Aglianico 100%

2014

️  13%

Red wine

It comes from a 1.9 hectare vineyard with vines up to 35 years old on sandy and clayey soil. It ferments spontaneously with native yeasts in concrete tanks, in contact with the skins for 7 days. Subsequently it refines in 4th/5th passage wood.

Pink and violet, red fruits, undergrowth, green coffee and cocoa, iodized puffs and very light black pepper

The sip is full-bodied and gentle but agile, the tannin is smooth. Elegantly savory and long

Serving temperature 16°-18°

Game

Deep and persistent

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Melfi, Vulture

Arteke in Lucanian dialect means a restless child. The winery was born in 2013 in Vulture from the meeting between Giulio Francesco Bagnale, president of AIAS Melfi-Matera (association of families of people with disabilities) and Alessandro Bocchetti, Gourmand and Disseminator, who decided to create an agricultural company aimed at the employment of children with disabilities.

Since 2020 the winemaker is Luca Faccenda, a young and talented Piedmontese, who has decided to embrace the cause.

Artekeke is a symbol of redemption and resistance, like the Bramea, the stylized butterfly in the logo, very rare and which lived exclusively around the Monticchio Lakes, in Vulture: A warning to take flight.

Artekeke wines are profound and pure expression of a wild and volcanic terroir.