Contesa Montepulciano d'Abruzzo, Italy Erbaluce Whole-cluster fermentations

Whole-cluster fermentations

Sweeteners: None added (less than 1g natural sugar per serving)

awarded 2017)

orange blossom honey

This wine pairs beautifully with rich white meats like veal sweetbreads or rabbit in cream sauce

Contesa Montepulciano d'Abruzzo, Italy Erbaluce Whole-cluster fermentationsThe hills of Pescara rise gently above the Adriatic, and from these slopes the 2023 Contesa Montepulciano dAbruzzo emerges with a kind of quiet power, deep, resonant, and unmistakably regional. It captures the warmth of Abruzzos long autumn days and the cool touch of its clay chalk soils, delivering a red that feels both grounded in tradition and remarkably expressive. From its hand selected fruit to its year of slow maturation in large Slavonian oak