Vasto producer on the Colli Albani hill above the southern Abruzzo coast, working the Montepulciano, Trebbiano and Cerasuolo range from a cellar inside the town.
Address: Via Colli Albani, 3/c, 66054 Vasto, Chieti, Italy, Abruzzo
The Loreto Aprutino estate run by Francesco Paolo Valentini, bottling Trebbiano, Montepulciano and Cerasuolo. DoctorWine states there are neither cellar visits nor sales at the door.
Tasting: No cellar visits and no direct sales at the estate
Torano Nuovo house bottling since 1964, working unfiltered and holding wine in the cellar for up to twenty years before decanting. Montepulciano, Trebbiano and Pecorino, plus rooms on site.
Tasting: Tastings and visits arranged by email, with an agriturismo in the founder's house on the estate
Founded at San Martino sulla Marrucina in 1981 and now farming 320 hectares across all four Abruzzo provinces, with about 2.5 million bottles a year according to DoctorWine.
Hillside estate at Cugnoli in the Pescara hinterland, trading as Agricola Tiberio and working Montepulciano, Trebbiano Abruzzese and Pecorino from its own vineyards.
Loreto Aprutino estate started in 2000, farming 26 hectares and making around 190,000 bottles a year per DoctorWine. Cellar and vineyard sit at Poggioragone.
Ofena estate in the hot inland basin under the Gran Sasso, dating to 1920 and farming 30 hectares. Now led by Giulia Cataldi Madonna after the death of Luigi Cataldi Madonna.
