Structure
Critic scores
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In the glass
Aroma: marasca cherry, cherry, red petals
Palate: red fruit, salinity
Cerasuolo red with bright ruby veins. The estate finds small fleshy red fruits, marasca and cherry with red petals, and calls the palate soft and dry, fresh, savoury, intense and persistent.
What it pairs with
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Salumi and local cheeses
The estate has poured its wines with a board of local cured meats and cheeses. -
Tomato-based fish stew
A savoury, persistent rosato carries a tomato-based broth. -
Grilled white meat
The wine's body suits chicken or rabbit off the grill.
Facts
- Producer
- Tenuta Cerulli Spinozzi · visiting guide
- Grapes
- Montepulciano (100%)
- Classification
- Cerasuolo d'Abruzzo DOC
Frequently asked about Cortalto Cerasuolo d'Abruzzo
What does Cortalto Cerasuolo taste like?
A cerasuolo red with bright ruby veins, scents of small fleshy red fruits, marasca, cherry and small red petals, and a palate that is soft and dry, fresh, savoury, intense and persistent.
Which grape is used?
Montepulciano d'Abruzzo alone, as the Cerasuolo d'Abruzzo DOC requires.
Where is the estate?
At Canzano in the province of Teramo, formed from the merger of the Spinozzi and Cerulli Irelli properties in the first half of the twentieth century.