Taurasi and Taurasi riserva are red, still Italian wines based principally on the Aglianico grape variety produced in the province of Avellino in the Campania region. They were awarded denominazione di origine controllata (DOC) status in 1970 and denominazione di origine controllata e garantita (DOCG) status in 1993. Produced less than 40 miles (64 km) from the other Aglianico stronghold of Aglianico del Vulture in Basilicata, the volcanic soils of the Taurasi region demonstrate the potential the Aglianico grape has to make wines on par with the Nebbiolo grape of Piedmont and Sangiovese grape of Tuscany. The popularity of the region's wine is a relatively recent phenomenon. Until the early 1990s, there was only one winery (Mastroberardino), producing wine for the export market. By the mid-2000s, there were over 293 producers in the Taurausi zone.
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Taurasi is an appellation in Campania, Italy. Its rules allow Aglianico. We track 34 of its wines in stock at 15 shops, from 11 wine houses, from € 23.00; mostly red.
- Country
- Italy
- Region
- Campania
- Grapes allowed
- Aglianico
- In our wines
- Aglianico
- Styles
- Red 34
- Prices
- from € 23.00 · median € 43.70 / 75 cl
Vintages
per year: wines in stock, prices, and the critics' scores the shops quote| Vintage | Wines | From | Median / 75 cl | Critics' score | Growing season |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | – | – | – | – | hotdryso far +2.6 °C · 2,220 GDD · 30 % rain |
| 2025 | – | – | – | – | hotwetwet harvest +1.1 °C · 2,149 GDD · 440 % rain |
| 2024 | – | – | – | – | hotdry +2.2 °C · 2,390 GDD · 67 % rain |
| 2023 | – | – | – | – | hot +1.1 °C · 2,151 GDD · 120 % rain |
| 2022 | – | – | – | – | hotwet harvest +1.7 °C · 2,269 GDD · 100 % rain |
| 2021 | 2 | € 23.00 | € 28.50 | – | warmdrydry harvest +0.5 °C · 2,010 GDD · 65 % rain |
| 2020 | 2 | € 29.50 | € 39.75 | – | average +0.2 °C · 1,959 GDD · 106 % rain |
| 2019 | 2 | € 60.00 | € 90.00 | – | warm +0.9 °C · 2,094 GDD · 110 % rain |
| 2018 | 2 | € 38.00 | € 38.95 | – | warm +0.9 °C · 2,105 GDD · 125 % rain |
| 2017 | 3 | € 38.50 | € 48.00 | – | warmdry +0.9 °C · 2,092 GDD · 38 % rain |
| 2016 | 3 | € 27.00 | € 34.00 | – | averagewetwet harvest −0.3 °C · 1,838 GDD · 162 % rain |
| 2015 | 2 | € 27.00 | € 36.58 | – | averagewet +0.4 °C · 1,992 GDD · 131 % rain |
| 2014 | – | – | – | – | cool −0.7 °C · 1,759 GDD · 115 % rain |
| 2013 | 1 | € 34.19 | € 34.19 | – | average +0.2 °C · 1,946 GDD · 107 % rain |
| 2012 | 1 | € 38.00 | € 38.00 | – | hot +1.0 °C · 2,126 GDD · 88 % rain |
| 2011 | 4 | € 43.50 | € 52.70 | – | average ±0.0 °C · 1,915 GDD · 85 % rain |
| 2010 | 1 | € 45.00 | € 45.00 | – | coolwet −0.8 °C · 1,741 GDD · 147 % rain |
| 2009 | 1 | € 45.00 | € 45.00 | – | warm +0.5 °C · 2,006 GDD · 101 % rain |
| 2008 | 1 | € 45.00 | € 45.00 | – | average +0.2 °C · 1,960 GDD · 77 % rain |
| 2007 | 2 | € 60.00 | € 60.00 | – | average +0.2 °C · 1,961 GDD · 71 % rain |
| 2006 | – | – | – | – | average −0.1 °C · 1,890 GDD · 98 % rain |
| 2005 | – | – | – | – | cool −0.5 °C · 1,799 GDD · 92 % rain |
| 2004 | – | – | – | – | average −0.3 °C · 1,852 GDD · 111 % rain |
| 2003 | – | – | – | – | hot +1.2 °C · 2,167 GDD · 99 % rain |
| 2002 | – | – | – | – | average −0.3 °C · 1,841 GDD · 123 % rain |
| 2001 | – | – | – | – | averagedry +0.2 °C · 1,948 GDD · 53 % rain |
| 2000 | – | – | – | – | warmdry harvest +0.7 °C · 2,049 GDD · 80 % rain |
| 1999 | – | – | – | – | warmdry +0.6 °C · 2,048 GDD · 59 % rain |
| 1998 | – | – | – | – | average +0.2 °C · 1,949 GDD · 102 % rain |
| 1997 | – | – | – | – | cooldry harvest −0.8 °C · 1,812 GDD · 72 % rain |
| 1996 | – | – | – | – | coldwet harvest −1.5 °C · 1,588 GDD · 129 % rain |
| 1995 | – | – | – | – | cold −1.3 °C · 1,636 GDD · 121 % rain |
| 1994 | – | – | – | – | average +0.2 °C · 1,956 GDD · 100 % rain |
| 1993 | – | – | – | – | average +0.3 °C · 1,973 GDD · 79 % rain |
| 1992 | – | – | – | – | average −0.3 °C · 1,835 GDD · 107 % rain |
| 1991 | – | – | – | – | cold −1.4 °C · 1,634 GDD · 111 % rain |
| 1990 | – | – | – | – | average −0.3 °C · 1,841 GDD · 112 % rain |
| 1989 | – | – | – | – | cold −1.2 °C · 1,659 GDD · 113 % rain |
| 1988 | – | – | – | – | average +0.4 °C · 1,989 GDD · 85 % rain |
| 1987 | – | – | – | – | averagedrydry harvest ±0.0 °C · 1,898 GDD · 70 % rain |
| 1986 | – | – | – | – | averagedry −0.2 °C · 1,858 GDD · 68 % rain |
| 1985 | – | – | – | – | averagedrydry harvest −0.3 °C · 1,850 GDD · 60 % rain |
| 1984 | – | – | – | – | coldwetwet harvest −1.9 °C · 1,509 GDD · 134 % rain |
| 1983 | – | – | – | – | cool −0.6 °C · 1,788 GDD · 88 % rain |
| 1982 | – | – | – | – | average −0.1 °C · 1,881 GDD · 118 % rain |
Growing season (April–October; October–April south of the equator): mean temperature against Taurasi's 1991–2020 normal (hot: 1 °C or more above, warm: 0.5 °C, cool/cold below), growing degree days (warmth for the vines, base 10 °C) and rain against normal, with the harvest month (September/March) flagged when very wet or dry. Monthly data from NASA POWER (MERRA-2) at one point in the appellation. The current year is compared with the same months of a normal year (“so far”); its latest months are preliminary and revised by NASA later.
Critics' score: the average of the best 100-point score quoted for each wine of that vintage, as the shops quote them. A few quoted wines make a thin average; the number of wines is in brackets.
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