Vineyards cover 16,300 hectares (sixteenth) of which registered DOC plots total 1,470 hectares (seventeenth).
Annual wine production of 400,000 hectolitre (eighteenth) includes 1.6 per cent or 6,500 hectolitres (eighteenth) entirely red.
DOC AREAS - Aglianico del Vulture, Vecchio
OTHER WINES OF NOTE - Aglianico dei Colli Lucani o di Matera, Canneto Metapontum, Montepulciano di Basilicata Asprino or Asprinio, Metapontum, Malvasia del Vulture, Malvasia della Lucania, Moscato del Vuture
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