Montepulciano d’Abruzzo D.O.C.
Montepulciano
TASTE it tastes structured and wide, harmonious with berries and licorice notes
FOOD PAIRING it goes well with cold meats, red sauce baked pasta, barbecue white and red meats, stewed bushmeat, mushrooms, ripened or blue cheeses
- ALCOHOL about 13,5%
- COLOUR intense color with purplish higlights
- PRODUCTION AREA Abruzzo, Italy
- ALTITUDE 200 meters above the sea
- GRAPE 100% Montepulciano
- SOIL sandy, calcareous, mostly solid
- YELD PER HECTARE 100 – 120 pecks
- VINIFICATION YIELD 65 %
- HARVEST second/third decade of October
- ALCOHOLIC FERMENTATION in stainless steel at a controlled temperature
- AGEING 6 months in stainless steel, 6/12 months in oak wood Barriqu