Basilicata is the “instep” of Italy’s boot. Mostly mountainous, barely populated and untouched by development, the visitor is struck with the stunning natural beauty that suggests the prettier parts of Switzerland. Inside of Italy, Basilicata is famous for its hearty, mountain-based cuisine and its powerhouse of an autochthonous grape, Aglianico, which finds its spiritual home on the mountain of vulture, a textbook example of the dynamic symbiosis of the mathematical equation of ‘right grape’, ‘right place’ multiplied by ‘time’, in this case, several thousand years.
