Winemaker Notes
Straw yellow with green tinges. Luminous wine, very mineral, with green apple, apricot, tangerine, lemon peel, with nuances of white flowers and anise. Vibrant, precise, crystalline. Rich and tactile with a laser beam of lemony acidity. Finishes long with harmonious minerality and flinty, creamy texture.
Professional Ratings
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Vinous
Honeyed yet vibrantly fresh and mineral in style, the 2022 Trebbiano d'Abruzzo Fonte Canale is fruit-intense at this early stage in its life, mixing candied citrus with tart green apples and a cascade of minty herbs and spice. Its acidity wins the day, precise and lifting, offsetting its depths of tart orchard fruit. It finishes long and potent with notes of nectarine and spice that linger on and on. While the 2022 vintage was warm, the season was blessed with rain in September that brought cooler temperatures. As a result, the wine has a core of zesty acidity to balance its rich fruit. This will be a vintage to watch closely.
Range: 94-96
Compared to other white wine-producing varieties, Trebbiano claims some of the most vineyard acreage on a global scale. There are six distinct varieties with Trebbiano as part of their name in Italy alone. Trebbiano Toscano, one of the most popular, is deliciously light and crisp. Trebbiano d’Abruzzo actually has some aging potential when handled carefully. Somm Secret—Known as Ugni Blanc in France, Trebbiano is responsible for the whites in Southwest, France called Gascogne Blanc.
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.