Winemaker Notes
Deep ruby-red in color, Ramitello offers aromas of plums, forest fruits, dark chocolate, leather, and licorice. On the palate, a rich and velvety body pushes flavors to continue over a long and intriguing finish.
Pair this wine with grilled steaks, Port sauces, Scandinavian-style venison, and beef bourgignon.
Blend: 85% Montepulciano, 15% Aglianico
Professional Ratings
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James Suckling
Aromas of fig, grilled plum and leather. Full-bodied with firm tannins. Savory on the palate with baked black fruit and baking spice. Earthy herbs. Coffee.
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Wine Enthusiast
Cedar and dill are followed by vanilla and black cherries and then more earthy notes of bricks and crushed stone on the nose, while the palate stays juicy and sweet with more cherries and vanilla, contoured by firm tannins and substantial acid.
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.
This mountainous region south of Abruzzo comes in second after Valle d’Aosta as Italy’s smallest and least populated region. Wine production is largely reserved for cooperatives with the main varieties as Montepulciano d’Abruzzo and Trebbiano d’Abruzzo. Plantings of grape varieties from its neighboring region of Campania—whites Fiano and Greco di tufo and the red, Aglianico—have increased recently.