Ciavolich Divus Montepulciano d’Abruzzo DOP 2020

Montepulciano d’Abruzzo DOP, Italy

Ciavolich Divus Montepulciano d’Abruzzo DOP is a beautiful food-friendly red wine of 100% Montepulciano from Italy’s Abruzzo region. The name of the winery is Ciavolich Azienda Agricola. The Ciavolichs were Bulgarian wool merchants who, in 1500, arrived in Miglianico, where, in 1853, the family constructed their first wine cellar, which is one of the most ancient winemaking buildings in Abruzzo. Today the family winery is owned and run by Chiara Ciavolich and her husband Gianluca. We first met Chiara at our shop in October 2016 and immediately fell in love with her wines!

Entirely hand-harvested, the wines of Ciavolich reflect the time honored, traditional winemaking techniques of Abruzzo. The grapes for Divus are selected and harvested by hand and taken in the winery to be destemmed and crushed. The must ferments in steel vats under controlled temperature. The wine is then transferred to old barrels and barriques where it ages for a year. Aging continues in bottle to then present a fresh, tannic, soft, full-bodied, ma­ture wine that gets better with time.

Divus is an authentic wine that shows through its elegant hints of blackberry and raspberry jam, typical of the cépa­ge, spices like licorice and black pepper and hints of mineral and graphite. An average of 35,000 bottles are produced.

Enjoy Ciavolich Divus Montepulciano d’Abruzzo over the next 8-10 years with polenta with sausages, stew with potatoes and cherry tomatoes, grilled lamb, veal with tomatoes and parmesan cheese.