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The name may be a corruption of "Vitis hellenica", Latin for "Greek vine".The Aglianico is red grape originally grown in Campania and Basilicata, where it still give its best results with powerful and at the same time, elegant wines, that is now grown in the whole south of Italy. Within these two regions, there are different areas where the grape is grown resulting in red wines with different characteristics.

Its red wines are usually tannic, smoky and full of blackberry flavours and age very well when properly made. The Aglianico grape is used to make Aglianico wines, red and rose’, and the Taurasi.