Amorotti Cerasuolo d'Abruzzo 2021

Amorotti Cerasuolo d'Abruzzo 2021

Amorotti
$42.00

Grape: Montepulciano
Vintage: 2021
Type: Rose

The Amorotti Cerasuolo d'Abruzzo 2021 presents a captivating profile, departing from the typical light and simple rosato. It's a wine that expresses the depth of the Montepulciano grape, revealing a vibrant, deep rose color. On the nose, it offers fragrant notes of ripe red fruits, particularly strawberry and pomegranate, often accompanied by hints of citrus, like blood orange. The palate is characterized by a balance of tart raspberry, a touch of salinity, and sometimes an intriguing savory element, like a sesame-cracker quality. It possesses a bright acidity and a persistent finish, suggesting it can be enjoyed now or cellared for further development.

Amorotti:

Amorotti is a fairly new project ,2016 being their first vintage. Gaetano Carboni makes three standout wines traditional to Abruzzo, (a white) Trebbiano d’Abruzzo, and two made with the red Montepulciano grape (a light red/rose) Cerasuolo d’Abruzzo and Montepulciano d’Abruzzo. These three wines mary seriousness of intention and delicious, bright uplifting fruit profile. The wines are distinctive while being approachable, made in a low intervention manner, native yeast, spontaneous fermentation, minimum sulfur.

The vineyards have belonged to the family for over a century and certified organic since 2009.

The industrialization of wine is the end of its identities, its nuances, its characteristics which are part of the magic of a bottle.