More on local wines, beer, apéritifs and digestifs!
Cantine Aperte in Abruzzo is back on with a bang in 2022 when the very best of Abruzzo’s cantine and wineries fling open their doors on Saturday 28th and Sunday 29th May and invite wine lovers to come and do some wine tasting
Did you know Atri was name-checked by Pliny as a famous city of wine? A reputation that grew not just from the fabulous grapes that were cultivated in its surrounding foothills close to the Adriatic, but relied on its superb amphorae that used the clay of the calanchi
Sloes aren’t the first things you think of in association with Modern Abruzzo despite their ability to grow up to 1600 masl, but dig a little and you soon bump into a local recipe or two that will help brace those long winter nights with their wild plummy delights.
Abruzzo is famous for its nose to tail eating, but what about arboreal and plant-based fruit and leaf drinking – can we apply a similar rule, using a cherry tree for example?
The popularity of craft beers and microbreweries has grown and grown in Abruzzo over the last 15 years, and today you’ll find them ranking in the lists of Italy’s top craft beers
The results are in with Abruzzo home to the winner of ‘Best Rosé in Italy! The Terzini winery is the winner of this year’s Revelation & Gold Medal (Gran Medaglia d’Oro) for their Rosato 2020
It says Montepulciano d’Abruzzo on the wine bottle’s label and you pop it in your trolley without reading past its title, but how much do you really know about what you’re buying, is it a blend or 100% Montepulciano Nero grape?
Abruzzo’s white grapes, Pecorino, Trebbiano and Passerina are tantalisingly almost ready and the rituals of the grape harvest known locally as the ‘Vendémmia’ is about to begin.
Italy officially uncorks its Vino Novello (‘New Wine’ – think Beaujolais but Italian style) on the 11th of November, which is coincidentally the ‘festa di St. Martino’
The end of May sees 2 fantastic events for those wanting to explore deeper into the incredible wines that Abruzzo is now famous for across the globe.