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The Masciarelli 2014 Montepulciano d'Abruzzo Riserva Villa Gemma is a rich and opulent wine that strikes a delicate balance between winemaking technique and territorial personality. You taste the Montepulciano grape in full, thanks to pronounced plum and black cherry and more dark fruit that later cedes to exotic spice and mahogany wood. This vintage is slightly thinner in terms of mouthfeel, but you'd hardly notice, thanks to the robust and lasting nature of its aromatic profile. This Riserva ages in oak for 18 months. Some 7,620 bottles were released.
Masciarelli Tenute Agricole was established in 1981 from the entrepreneurial intuition of Gianni Masciarelli, a symbol of Italian wine and protagonist of the success of modern wine production in Abruzzo. The beating heart of the winery is in San Martino sulla Marrucina, in the province of Chieti, and includes vineyards and olive groves, in all 4 provinces of Abruzzo. Wine production – while also having a small production of extra virgin olive oil – now has 18 labels and five product lines: Classic Line, Gianni Masciarelli, Villa Gemma, Marina Cvetic, and Castello di Semivicoli. In the constant and renewed work for innovation, but with respect for the environment and tradition, Masciarelli inaugurated, after a long restoration, Castello di Semivicoli, a seventeenth-century baronial mansion, which is now a Relais de Charme in the vineyards, a driving force of wine tourism in the area.