Winemaker Notes
Dark ruby red with sensations of ripe fruits like cherry and blackberry on the nose. Soft, captivating and elegantly balanced with tannins combined with a persistent finish.
A dry red wine with a strong structure, it matches perfectly with sauce based first courses, meat and medium to strong aged cheeses.
This wine is Kosher for Passover
Professional Ratings
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Wilfred Wong of Wine.com
The 2022 Cantina Gabriel Montepulciano d'Abruzzo is firmly built with moderate tannins. This wine shows aromas and flavors of enticing accents of licorice, fragrant spices, and attractive earth aromas. Enjoy it with Tuscan Seared Lamb Chops. (Tasted: January 3, 2025, San Francisco, CA)
Montepulciano is the second most planted red variety in Italy after Sangiovese, though it is achieves its highest potential in the region of Abruzzo. Consistently enticing and enjoyable, Montepulciano enjoys great popularity throughout central and southern Italy as well. A tiny bit grows with success in California, Argentina and Australia. Somm Secret—Montepulciano is also the name of a village in Tuscany where, confusingly, they don’t grow the Montepulciano grape at all! Sangiovese shines in yet another Tuscan village, here making the reputable wine called Vino Nobile di Montepulciano.
A warm, Mediterranean vine-growing paradise, in Abruzzo, the distance from mountains to seaside is relatively short. The Apenniness, which run through the center of Italy, rise up on its western side while the Adriatic Sea defines its eastern border.
Wine composition tends to two varieties: Abruzzo’s red grape, Montepulciano and its white, Trebbiano. Montepulciano d’Abruzzo can come in a quaffable, rustic and fruity style that generally drinks best young. It is also capable of making a more serious style, where oak aging tames its purely wild fruit.
Trebbiano in Abruzzo also comes in a couple of varieties. Trebbiano Toscana makes a simple and fruity white. However when meticulously tended, the specific Trebbiano d’Abruzzo-based white wines can be complex and long-lived.
In the region’s efforts to focus on better sites and lower yields, vine acreage has decreased in recent years while quality has increased.