Cantina Margiotta Tasting Room ★ 3.9
Valle Peligna producer at Pratola Peligna running a cellar and barrel-room visit with a selection of its wines and local food.
Tip: The estate also bottles liqueurs, so ask what is open beyond the wine list.
Tasting Rooms in Terre dei Peligni
Wine Restaurants in Terre dei Peligni
Reale ★ 4.9
Niko Romito's restaurant in a former convent at Castel di Sangro, with a cellar of about 1,300 labels and a list that leans on Abruzzo.
The list: About 5,000 bottles across roughly 1,300 labels, held at 14 to 17 degrees, weighted to Italy and Abruzzo with a European spine.
Awards: https://www.nikoromito.com/reale/ 2014
Tip: The cellar list is built around drinkability rather than trophy bottles, so ask the team to steer you local.
Wine Hotels in Terre dei Peligni
Casadonna, Reale ★ 4.8
Rooms in the sixteenth-century convent at Castel di Sangro that houses Niko Romito's Reale, with the restaurant's cellar of about 1,300 labels downstairs.
Tip: Classic and Superior rooms are booked alongside the restaurant, not separately from it.
Wine Day Trips in Terre dei Peligni
Sulmona ★ 4.7
The town at the centre of the Valle Peligna, the basin where the consortium places Abruzzo viticulture before the Renaissance. Ovid was born here, and a 12th century Gothic aqueduct runs along Piazza Garibaldi.
Pours: Montepulciano d'Abruzzo Terre dei Peligni, Cerasuolo d'Abruzzo
Tip: Buy confetti, the sugared almonds the town has made for centuries, and walk Piazza Garibaldi, where the Giostra Cavalleresca horse race is run in summer.
Scanno and its lake ★ 4.6
A stone village at 1,050 metres in the Sagittario valley, above a lake stocked with pike and perch. Henri Cartier-Bresson photographed the town in 1951 and Mario Giacomelli from 1957 to 1959.
Pours: Montepulciano d'Abruzzo Terre dei Peligni
Tip: The drive up the Sagittario gorge from Anversa is the point of the trip. Go in the morning and come back down through Sulmona for lunch.