Winemaker Notes
Tenuta Tre Gemme Montepulciano is the perfect expression of a new winemaking trend. It's a youthful Montepulciano d'Abruzzo, embodying all the power of red fruit flavors. Vinification takes place in stainless steel, preserving the full strength of the Montepulciano grapes. It marks the beginning of a new era, where the quality of the grape reaches your glass of wine intact.
Professional Ratings
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Wine Enthusiast
The nose is a plate of warm, dried cherry chocolate chip cookies with a cup of coffee, while the palate presents wild strawberries and raspberries alongside more chocolate, but also a kick of chili pepper, a sprinkle of salt and a squeeze of citrus.
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James Suckling
This mellow, earthy red has aromas of mushrooms, smoked tea and dark cherries. It’s medium-bodied with lightly grainy tannins. From organically grown grapes.
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.