Cerasuolo d'Abruzzo is an Italian DOC classification of a rosé style wine made from the Montepulciano grape in Italy's Abruzzo wine region. The name cerasuolo relates to the deep color the wine obtains from even very brief skin-contact with the highly pigmented skins of the Montepulciano grapes.
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Cerasuolo d'Abruzzo is an appellation in Abruzzo, Italy. Its rules allow Montepulciano. We track 75 of its wines in stock at 35 shops, from 44 wine houses, from € 6.50; mostly rosé.
| Vintage | Wines | From | Median / 75 cl | Critics' score | Growing season |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | – | – | – | – | hotdryso far +2.5 °C · 2,518 GDD · 61 % rain |
| 2025 | 26 | € 7.95 | € 13.25 | 93.0 (1 wine) | hot +1.2 °C · 2,570 GDD · 116 % rain |
| 2024 | 17 | € 10.00 | € 14.00 | – | hotwet harvest +2.0 °C · 2,734 GDD · 103 % rain |
| 2023 | 11 | € 8.80 | € 20.90 | – | hot +1.3 °C · 2,595 GDD · 120 % rain |
| 2022 | 6 | € 12.50 | € 23.90 | – | hotdry +1.4 °C · 2,616 GDD · 63 % rain |
Growing season (April–October; October–April south of the equator): mean temperature against Cerasuolo d'Abruzzo's 1991–2020 normal (hot: 1 °C or more above, warm: 0.5 °C, cool/cold below), growing degree days (warmth for the vines, base 10 °C) and rain against normal, with the harvest month (September/March) flagged when very wet or dry. Monthly data from NASA POWER (MERRA-2) at one point in the appellation. The current year is compared with the same months of a normal year (“so far”); its latest months are preliminary and revised by NASA later.
Critics' score: the average of the best 100-point score quoted for each wine of that vintage, as the shops quote them. A few quoted wines make a thin average; the number of wines is in brackets.
Cirelli 7 · Di Cato 4 · Castorani 3 · Torre dei Beati 3 · Tenuta Ulisse 3 · La Valentina 3 · Tiberio 2 · Ausonia 2 · Masciarelli 2 · Fattoria La Valentina 2 · Agriverde 2 · Fonte Cupa 2 · Cantina Frentana 2 · Emidio Pepe 2 · Illuminati 2 · Valentini 2
| 3 |
| € 27.58 |
| € 27.84 |
| – |
| warmdry harvest +0.5 °C · 2,413 GDD · 80 % rain |
| 2020 | 1 | € 12.50 | € 12.50 | – | average +0.4 °C · 2,396 GDD · 90 % rain |
| 2019 | – | – | – | – | warm +0.7 °C · 2,472 GDD · 86 % rain |
| 2018 | – | – | – | – | hot +1.2 °C · 2,569 GDD · 119 % rain |
| 2017 | – | – | – | – | warmdry +0.7 °C · 2,464 GDD · 50 % rain |
| 2016 | – | – | – | – | average ±0.0 °C · 2,310 GDD · 115 % rain |
| 2015 | – | – | – | – | warm +0.6 °C · 2,451 GDD · 120 % rain |
| 2014 | – | – | – | – | average −0.3 °C · 2,241 GDD · 105 % rain |
| 2013 | – | – | – | – | averagedry +0.3 °C · 2,379 GDD · 66 % rain |
| 2012 | – | – | – | – | warmwet harvest +0.9 °C · 2,511 GDD · 95 % rain |
| 2011 | – | – | – | – | warm +0.5 °C · 2,410 GDD · 79 % rain |
| 2010 | – | – | – | – | average −0.4 °C · 2,227 GDD · 99 % rain |
| 2009 | – | – | – | – | averagewet +0.3 °C · 2,386 GDD · 155 % rain |
| 2008 | – | – | – | – | average +0.2 °C · 2,351 GDD · 87 % rain |
| 2007 | – | – | – | – | average +0.3 °C · 2,369 GDD · 111 % rain |
| 2006 | – | – | – | – | average −0.1 °C · 2,294 GDD · 108 % rain |
| 2005 | – | – | – | – | coolwetwet harvest −0.7 °C · 2,175 GDD · 152 % rain |
| 2004 | – | – | – | – | average −0.3 °C · 2,248 GDD · 115 % rain |
| 2003 | – | – | – | – | warm +0.8 °C · 2,480 GDD · 81 % rain |
| 2002 | – | – | – | – | averagewet harvest −0.3 °C · 2,251 GDD · 115 % rain |
| 2001 | – | – | – | – | averagedry −0.2 °C · 2,278 GDD · 61 % rain |
| 2000 | – | – | – | – | average +0.1 °C · 2,346 GDD · 115 % rain |
| 1999 | – | – | – | – | average −0.2 °C · 2,266 GDD · 119 % rain |
| 1998 | – | – | – | – | averagewet harvest ±0.0 °C · 2,311 GDD · 110 % rain |
| 1997 | – | – | – | – | cool −0.8 °C · 2,145 GDD · 90 % rain |
| 1996 | – | – | – | – | coldwet harvest −1.4 °C · 2,022 GDD · 114 % rain |
| 1995 | – | – | – | – | cold −1.1 °C · 2,085 GDD · 77 % rain |
| 1994 | – | – | – | – | averagedry harvest +0.2 °C · 2,357 GDD · 72 % rain |
| 1993 | – | – | – | – | averagedry −0.1 °C · 2,302 GDD · 53 % rain |
| 1992 | – | – | – | – | average −0.4 °C · 2,229 GDD · 120 % rain |
| 1991 | – | – | – | – | cold −1.5 °C · 1,998 GDD · 125 % rain |
| 1990 | – | – | – | – | cooldrydry harvest −0.6 °C · 2,189 GDD · 67 % rain |
| 1989 | – | – | – | – | coldwetwet harvest −1.3 °C · 2,034 GDD · 136 % rain |
| 1988 | – | – | – | – | averagedry ±0.0 °C · 2,312 GDD · 69 % rain |
| 1987 | – | – | – | – | averagedry −0.3 °C · 2,242 GDD · 65 % rain |
| 1986 | – | – | – | – | cool −0.5 °C · 2,204 GDD · 91 % rain |
| 1985 | – | – | – | – | cooldrydry harvest −0.5 °C · 2,217 GDD · 66 % rain |
| 1984 | – | – | – | – | cold −1.5 °C · 2,003 GDD · 71 % rain |
| 1983 | – | – | – | – | cool −0.5 °C · 2,218 GDD · 77 % rain |
| 1982 | – | – | – | – | averagedry −0.2 °C · 2,280 GDD · 70 % rain |