{"product_id":"grifalco-gricos-2023-2023","title":"Grifalco, Aglianico del Vulture 'Gricos', 2023","description":"The everyday Aglianico that makes the case for the grape without asking you to wait a decade — Gricos is Grifalco's entry bottling, drawn from their younger vines (10 to 30 years old) at 450–550 meters on Mount Vulture's volcanic slopes, and it drinks with real crunch and lift. Fermentation happens in steel and aging is brief and low-key — six to twelve months in second-pass American barrels and French tonneaux, which season the wine rather than mark it — so what comes through is fruit, acidity and volcanic grit rather than oak. The fruit is hand-picked into crates, in the cellar within hours, then run through a linear destemmer that keeps only fully phenolically ripe berries. Grifalco is the Piccin family project, founded in 2004 by Fabrizio and Cecilia, who left Tuscany for Basilicata and now farm sixteen organic hectares, with the Gricos vineyards sitting in Venosa, Maschito and Forenza. The name splits the difference between their two homes: the griffin of Montepulciano married to the falcon of Monte Vulture (that bird on the label is not a vulture). At 13% alcohol and 40,000 bottles, this is the anti-blockbuster southern Italian red — serious grape, honest farming, remarkable quality for the price.","brand":"SoilAir [SOI]","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46473931948089,"sku":"NYC-W-SOI-`GRIFGRICO75023`-090926-7","price":23.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0125\/1518\/0601\/files\/Grifalco-Aglianico-del-Vulture-Gricos-2023-Red-Wine-Flatiron-Wines-Spirits-New-York.jpg?v=1789137648","url":"https:\/\/nyc.flatiron-wines.com\/products\/grifalco-gricos-2023-2023","provider":"Flatiron Wines \u0026 Spirits NYC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}