Winemaker Notes
Zanna is an intense ruby red, turning to garnet-red with ageing. On the nose, notes of blackberry and dry flowers, almost ethereal. It is a wine of great character, soft tannins, and is velvety and refined, serving as a powerful accompaniment to rich sauces.
Professional Ratings
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James Suckling
Cherry, dried tomato, olive, cedar and spice on the nose. It’s medium-bodied with firm, tight tannins and bright acidity. Firm and savory. Best with hearty food. Drink or hold.
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Wine Enthusiast
Aromas of crushed herbs and spiced cherry show a pleasing depth on the nose. Medium in weight, the palate brings juicy red cherry, tobacco and earth, with slightly sandy tannins rising up on the finish. Sourced from a single vineyard in the Colline Teramane DOCG, it shows very good vibrancy and concentration.
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Wine Spectator
Chewy tannins define flavors of plumped black cherry, sandalwood, wild sage and dried fig, lending weight and structure to this well-spiced, balanced red. A subtle note of fresh, loamy earth lingers on the finish. Drink now through 2027.
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.