5 organic spots in Abruzzo, editor-picked by Cork & Curve. All dietary guides in Abruzzo.
Cantine Agriverde ★ 4.4
Ortona and the Trabocchi coast · Via Stortini 32/a, 66020 Caldari di Ortona, Chieti, Italy
Cantine Agriverde states on its own site that it converted its 65 hectares at Caldari di Ortona to organic farming in 1988 and is certified by ICEA.
Tip: 1988 is early for an Italian estate of this size, and it put organic viticulture into the coastal Chieti hills a decade before the rest of the region followed.
Barone Cornacchia ★ 4.5
Colline Teramane · Contrada Torri 19, 64010 Torano Nuovo, Teramo, Italy
A Torano Nuovo estate inside the Colline Teramane zone whose own site states that the whole production is certified organic, across Montepulciano, Cerasuolo, Trebbiano and the Controguerra whites.
Tip: The Poggio Varano line is where the organic farming shows most: a macerated Trebbiano and an amphora Montepulciano, both twenty euros at the door.
Valle Reale ★ 4.5
Casauria · Contrada San Calisto, 65026 Popoli, Pescara, Italy
Valle Reale states that more than half of its 46 hectares are certified organic with the remainder in conversion, on a plateau at 350 metres around Popoli and Capestrano.
Tip: The named parcels are Sant'Eusanio, San Calisto, Popoli, Capestrano and Convento, and the Capestrano fruit comes from the warmer Piana di Ofena.
Torre dei Beati ★ 4.7
Loreto Aprutino · Contrada Poggioragone, 56, 65014 Loreto Aprutino, Pescara, Italy
The Loreto Aprutino estate took over a vineyard farmed for years by Rocco, converted it to the organic method straight away, and released its first bottle in 2000.
Tip: The 2018 Cerasuolo d'Abruzzo was named Rosato dell'Anno in the Gambero Rosso 2020 guide, which is the bottling to ask for first.
Cantina Tollo ★ 4.1
Tollo · Viale Garibaldi, 68, 66010 Tollo, Chieti, Italy
The Tollo cooperative bottles an organic Montepulciano, Trebbiano and Pecorino at cooperative prices, drawing on 2,700 hectares of member vineyard across the Chieti hills.
Tip: Organic Montepulciano and Trebbiano are both 7.40 euros on the cooperative's own shop, the cheapest certified organic bottles in the region.