What wine region is Abruzzo?
Abruzzo is an Italian wine region on the east (Adriatic) coast. Its immediate neighbors in central Italy are Marche to the north, Lazio to the west and southwest and Molise to the southeast. Abruzzo is home to one DOCG – Montepulciano d’Abruzzo Colline Teramane – and three DOC wine designations.
What does Abruzzo mean in Italian?
Italian: regional name for someone from the Abruzzi, a mountainous region of Italy east of Rome.
Is Chianti like pinot noir?
Being called “light-bodied” is not necessarily an insult. The great Gamay wines are light-bodied, as are some Pinot Noirs. Merlot, Syrah, and Chianti are usually medium-bodied. The fullest-bodied wines are Cabernet Sauvignon, Bordeaux, and Italy’s Super-Tuscans.
What kind of wine is from Abruzzo Italy?
Montepulciano d’Abruzzo is a red Italian wine made from the Montepulciano wine grape in the Abruzzo region of east-central Italy.
What kind of grapes are used in Montepulciano D Abruzzo?
Under Italian wine laws, a Montepulciano d’Abruzzo DOC wine must be composed of a minimum of 85% Montepulciano with up to 15% of Sangiovese permitted to fill out the remainder of the wine. Grapes are harvested to a yield no greater than 14 tonnes per hectare.
Where does Montepulciano d’Abruzzo take place?
Map of the Abruzzo region and its four provinces where Montepulciano d’Abruzzo is produced. The DOC region for Montepulciano d’Abruzzo covers a vast expanse of land in the Abruzzo region between the Apennines foothills down to the Adriatic coast.
How is Montepulciano d’Abruzzo related to Sangiovese?
While the Montepulciano d’Abruzzo grape has no known relationship to the Tuscan wine village of Montepulciano or the Sangiovese grape behind the wines of Vino Nobile di Montepulciano, it was thought of for a time in the 19th century that the Montepulciano grape and Sangiovese may be related.
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