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Twig & Terroir: Discovering Cantina Zaccagnini's Montepulciano d'Abruzzo

Recently I wrote about Poderi dal Nespoli , one of the winer ies that fall s under Argea , the l argest private wine group in Italy .   Today I’m highlighting the Cantina Zaccagnini winer y , also a part of   Argea , that is located in Italy’s 5th largest region in area, Abruzzo. The virtual tasting I attended online walked through several Zaccagnini wines led by Italian wine expert, Fili ppo Barto letta .   Let’s discover more about the Abruzzo wine region , its most produced grape, Montepulciano, and the many expressions that Zaccagnini produces under their Tralcetto line of wines today .   The Abruzzo wine region   The Abruzzo region is “wild....and one of the greenest regions in Europe ”, as Filippo described .   It’s rather small in size with about 1.3 million inhabitants.   To give you some perspective, the city of Manhattan, NY is larger in size.   That’s because a lot of the terrain of Abruzzo is dominated by mountains, hills and forests,