CANTINE TAVERNA

Sobre la bodega y los vinos

TAVERNA IS AN ITALIAN COMPANY THAT PRODUCES ORGANIC FRUIT AND VEGETABLES, MILK AND WINE, BASED IN NOVA SIRI, IN THE BASILICATA REGION: CURRENTLY IT’S ONE OF THE MOST WELL-KNOWN AND PRODUCTIVE COMPANIES IN SOUTHERN ITALY. THE COMPANY WAS FOUNDED BY CAV. PASQUALE LUNATI IN 1950 IN NOVA SIRI, IN THE PROVINCE OF MATERA

WITH THE BEGINNING OF THE VITICULTURAL EXPERIMENTS LAUNCHED IN 1985, THE LUNATI FAMILY WAS AMONG THE FIRST IN THE REGION TO BELIEVE IN A QUALITY VITICULTURE. IT WAS THE ISTITUTO DI ENOLOGIA DI CONEGLIANO VENETO AND THE DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE OF THE BASILICATA REGION TO COLLABORATE WITH TAVERNA FOR THE PLANTING OF THE FIRST VINEYARDS IN THE METAPONTINE AREA (TARANTO GULF), IN THE PROVINCE OF MATERA. TODAY, ON THE HILLS OVERLOOKING THE IONIAN SEA, AT AN ALTITUDE OF ABOUT 200MT ABOVE THE SEA LEVEL, THE VARIETIES CULTIVATED BY TAVERNA SINCE THE EARLY 1980S ARE THE SAME AS IN THE DISCIPLINES MATERA DOC AND BASILICATA IGT: GRECO, PRIMITIVO, AGLIANICOWHO WE ARE, MONTEPULCIANO, MOSCATO, MERLOT, SYRAH AND CABERNET SAUVIGNON