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Giuliano Pettinella is a young lawyer from Marche and he decided to try his hand at producing his own wine. It does so with two vines that together do not reach 0.50 ha for a handful of very precious bottles (1800 bt). On the slopes of the Maiella, in the Municipality of Tocco da Casauria (Pe) with an Abruzzo pergola system and 45-year-old vines and on a hill overlooking the sea, in Silvi Marina (Te), with 20-year-old vines trained with low spurred cordon. The approach is pure and aimed at enhancing the potential of a unique land such as Abruzzo. It does not use chemical fertilizers, but only manure and green manure every other year. During the vegetative phase, it carries out phytosanitary treatments against powdery mildew and downy mildew only with sulfur and copper sulfate. No chemical weeding but only herbs left to grow spontaneously for a single mowing in the summer, to facilitate green pruning and harvesting.
The Montepulciano grapes,with which Tauma is produced, grow in the Tocco da Casauria alberello method vineyards and the other trellis (spurred cordon) cultivated vineyard in Silvi Marina.
Cerasuolo wine is not subjected to any kind of stabilizer. It is not filtered or clarified using additives but undergoes natural settling by sedementation between one racking and another. The only additive used is a small quantity of suphur dioxide. The wine ferments and ages first in wood and then in steel for a length of time that can vary from year to year.
Tauma wine is a bright cherry colour with a fresh, delicate cherry and strawberry aroma at first which then evolves into more complex aroma nuances reminiscent of aromatic herbs, pomegranate, and gentian. Its bold, dynamic, subtly tannic taste with an almost smoky finish is typical of what one would expect from a Cerasuolo d’Abruzzo wine.