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Cerasuolo d'Abruzzo, Contesa 2024

Rose Wine from Italy - Abruzzo

2 Reviews

This brightly coloured, beautifully delicate dry rosato from the east of Italy has lovely redcurrant and cranberry flavours with a little spice on the finish.

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Code: IT43461

Wine characteristics

Rose Wine
2 - Dry
Montepulciano
75cl
Drinking now
12.5% Alcohol
no oak influence
Cork, natural
537 g (Empty bottle weight)

Vegetarian
Vegan
Organic

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Contesa

Rocco Pasetti is one of the most dynamic and talented producers we know and a great champion of wines of the Abruzzo. He was for many years the chief winemaker of the Roxan cooperative and one of the reasons we chose their Montepulciano as a Society wine.

More recently he bought his own estate, Vigna Corvino, with 30 hectares outside Pescara, planted with montepulciano and the local white grape pecorino. He also created his own model winery in the centre of the vines. These are planted on gentle hills between the Appennini mountains and the Adriatic sea – at 250 metres above sea level – with moderate rainfall and clay soils, which produce fragrant, rich wines. Rocco has abandoned weed killers and pesticides in favour of more natural methods.

The cellar was completed in 2004 and is carved into the hillside. As well as temperature-controlled stainless-steel tanks, the winery boasts a barrel room filled with Slavonian oak barrels.

Rocco, his wife Patrizia, sons Franco and Ugo and daughter Perla have frequently visited and met members at our Italian tastings. Contesa means ‘quarrel’ in Italian and is a nod back to Rocco’s winemaking great grandfather, who fought a hard battle with a local landowner to preserve his own vineyards back in 1903.

JancisRobinson.com

Pale ruby. Very perfumed indeed. Masses of fruit and quite soft, but there is enough acidity to keep it fresh and, on the end, there is actually a little chew. Could be a very versatile food partner.

Pale ruby. Very perfumed indeed. Masses of fruit and quite soft, but there is enough acidity to keep it fresh and, on the end, there is actually a little chew. Could be a very versatile food partner. JancisRobinson.com

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JancisRobinson.com

Pale-red/dark-pink Montepulciano from south-east Italy has a lovely perfume, masses of fruit and, like the wine above, this would be a brilliantly versatile food partner. I could easily imagine it lightly ...

Pale-red/dark-pink Montepulciano from south-east Italy has a lovely perfume, masses of fruit and, like the wine above, this would be a brilliantly versatile food partner. I could easily imagine it lightly chilled with a curry. JancisRobinson.com

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Jancis Robinson MW

Saturday 25th Oct 2025

The Independent

Don't judge a wine by its colour. Abruzzo lies to the east of Rome, a landscape of beautiful hillside villages and the glistening Adriatic coastline. The deep cherry red wine of this region is always...

Don't judge a wine by its colour. Abruzzo lies to the east of Rome, a landscape of beautiful hillside villages and the glistening Adriatic coastline. The deep cherry red wine of this region is always consistently high quality. This expression is made by a highly reputable producer from 100 per cent montepulciano. This medium-bodied wine is a joyful juice-bomb packed with fresh redcurrants, squishy raspberries, jewelled pomegranate and a twist of cracked pepper on top.

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