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Abruzzo (Abruzzi) is an Italian wine region located in the mountainous central Italian region of Abruzzo along the Adriatic Sea. It is bordered by the Molise wine region to the south, Marche to the north and Lazio to the west. Abruzzo's rugged terrain, 65% of which is mountainous, help to isolate the region from the winemaking influence of the ancient Romans and Etruscans in Tuscany but the area has had a long history of wine production.〔M. Ewing-Mulligan & E. McCarthy ''Italian Wines for Dummies'' pg 188-191 Hungry Minds 2001 ISBN 0-7645-5355-0〕〔J. Robinson (ed) ''The Oxford Companion to Wine'' Third Edition pgs 1 & 366-368 Oxford University Press 2006 ISBN 0-19-860990-6〕 Today more than 42 million cases of wine are produced annually in Abruzzo, making it the fifth most productive region in Italy, but only 21.5% of which is made under the ''Denominazione di origine controllata'' (DOC) designation.〔J. Bastianich & D. Lynch ''Vino Italiano'' pg 275-285 Crown Publishing 2005 ISBN 1-4000-9774-6〕〔T. Stevenson, ed. ''The Sotheby's Wine Encyclopedia (5th Edition)'' pgs 343-346 Dorling Kindersley (2011) ISBN 9780756686840〕 The majority of the region's wine (more than two-thirds) is produced by co-operatives or sold in bulk to ''negociants'' in other Italian wine regions in Tuscany, Piedmont and the Veneto for blending.〔〔 The most notable wine of the region is Montepulciano d'Abruzzo produced by the Montepulciano grape that is distinct from the Sangiovese grape behind the Tuscan wine Vino Nobile di Montepulciano.〔Matt Kramer ''Making Sense of Italian Wine'' pgs 162-168 Running Press Books 2006 ISBN 0762422300〕 Together with Trebbiano d'Abruzzo, Montepulciano d'Abruzzo is one of the most widely exported DOC wine from Italy, particularly to the United States.〔 While wine is produced in all four of Abruzzo's provinces, the bulk of the production takes place in the province of Chieti which is the fifth largest producing province in all of Italy. Some of the most highly rated wine from Abruzzo comes from the hillside vineyards in the northern provinces of Pescara and Teramo. In the completely mountainous province of L'Aquila in the west some rosé wine known as ''Cerasuolo'' from the Montepulciano grape is produced.〔 ==Climate and geography== The Abruzzo region has the Apennines running along its western border and includes Corno Grande, the highest point on mainland Italy. The mountain range serves as a tempering influence on the climate, blocking many storms that come in from the west. However, this does leave the area prone to storm systems originating from the east, which are blocked in their westward progression by the mountains, causing high levels of precipitation to fall on the vineyards, as happened during several rain soaked vintages of the late 1990s.〔 To the east, the Adriatic Sea provides a moderating Mediterranean climate for the vineyards that run along a west-east orientation in calcareous clay river valleys that flow from the mountains to the seas.〔 In the northern region of Abruzzo, along the Marche border, the microclimates, vineyard soils and altitude of many vineyards are similar to other central Italian wine regions in Tuscany, Umbria and Marche, while the warmer, flatter, more humid and fertile vineyard sites in the southern Chieti have microclimates more similar to southern Italian wine regions like Calabria and Apulia.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Abruzzo (wine)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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