Cantina Frentana

The Frentana Winery in Rocca San Giovanni was one of the first Wine Growers Cooperatives in Abruzzo, founded towards the end of the 1950's. The modern wine making systems have been successfully and harmoniously integrated with the historical and architectural surroundings of the vinyard that is dominated by a large wine filled tower that gives the winery an extremely unique and original touch.
On delivery to the winery the grapes are carefully selected, and thanks to the genuine desire to produce wholesome natural products by means of a well balanced combination of local traditions and state of the art wine making technology, are skilfully transformed into fine wines.
Our wines are the proud descendants of a wine making culture that has reinvented both the history and lifelong customs of the territory, beholding and protecting our past and our future with the integrity of today.
The symphony of colours and contours created by our vines are at one with the surrounding countryside, orchestrating in this togetherness the natural beauty of wide open colourful spaces that reveal the undiscovered facets of an Abruzzo steeped in wine making traditions.
From this lifelong experience, the Cantina Frentana wines are born, innately at home in contemporary lifestyles and ideal accompaniment with fine cuisine.
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Terre Valse Montepulciano d'Abruzzo and Trebbiano

Terre di Venere

Trebbiano d'Abruzzo. This wine is fermented in oak barrels and then left in wood to age. The sediment is regulary re-circulated inside the barrel following the "batonnage" technique. The resulting wine is thus much softer, richer and well balanced.


Terre Valse Montepulciano d'Abruzzo

Montepulciano is a staple red variety of central Italy; it washes down much pasta both at home and abroad. In the hands of producers aspiring to more than jug wine, Montepulciano assumes noble proportions. Much Montepulciano d'Abruzzo DOC wine falls into the latter category. Here is our new Montepulciano D'Abruzzo , FrentanaÕs Terre Valse, that is back to the style we enjoyed in the past, with loads of forward fruit in the nose and the palate. With the soaring popularity of red wines, especially those of Italy, this represents not only an excellent wine, but also a superb value.


Rubesto
This intense ruby Red Reserve wine is made from Montepulciano grapes gathered from hillside vines. Produced totally from selected Montepulciano d'Abruzzo grapes, it ages in oak casks for some months and rests in bottles for another year of refinement. it has a dry, soft and slightly tannic taste. After the period in oak barrels, the resulting wine acquires a pleasant equilibrium of flavor, making it a well balanced and soft wine of striking taste; it has been named Rubesto.