CANTINE TAVERNA

TAVERNA È UN’AZIENDA ITALIANA CHE PRODUCE ORTOFRUTTA BIOLOGICA, LATTE E VINO CON SEDE A NOVA SIRI, IN BASILICATA: ATTUALMENTE È UNA DELLE AZIENDE PIÙ NOTE E PRODUTTIVE DELLA PROVINCIA DI MATERA. LA SOCIETÀ FU FONDATA DAL CAV. PASQUALE LUNATI NEL 1950 A NOVA SIRI, IN BASILICATA.

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