Conviviale Montepulciano d'Abruzzo

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Gragnano pasta with Bolognese sauce.

An intense wine with cherry, ripe plum fruit aromas and a touch of warm, earthy spice. The palate is densely packed with morello cherry, cassis and bramble fruit flavors. Tannins are ripe, giving structure to a substantial wine with a fresh sappy finish.

Produced from selected parcels of Montepulciano grapes, from low yielding 30-50 year old vines in the Chieti province of Abruzzo. Fermentation took place in small batches between 82o to 86oF (28o to 30oC) using natural yeasts. The skins were left in contact with the fermenting wine for ten days. After malolactic fermentation the wine was transferred to Adria's cellars and matured in a combination of large Slavonian oak casks and French oak barriques for six to eight months.