Translucent golden yellow, bright and complex. Fruity, flowery and spicy with flavors of papaya, yellow peach, lavender, honey, vanilla.

Since 1991, Masciarelli has been producing the Marina Cvetic line of wines,named after Gianni Masciarelli's wife, who worked closely with him through the years. They reflect the estates most innovative and contemporary style of winemaking. The Marina Cvetic vineyard is located at San Martino in the coolest part of the DOC, adjacent to Villa Gemma, Masciarelli's finest vineyard. The planting is dense, the pruning rigourous and the cropping very low, resulting in wines of great concentration and character.

Technical notes

The vines are planted on east facing slopes of clay and limestone soil. The average age of the vines is 50 years. Barrel fermented with malolactic and aged in French oak for 22 months.

Producer

The estate was founded in 1981 by Gianni Masciarelli, a pioneer wine producer in his native region of Abruzzo who raised the quality and reputation of the local grape varieties -the red Montepulciano d'Abruzzo and the white Trebbiano d'Abruzzo. Masciarelli's wines, hich have earned numerous Gambero Rosso awards, appeal to expert and novice alike. The wines are worthy of the memory of Gianni, who worked tirelessly to secure his legacy as one of the true innovators in the Italian wine industry before his untimely passing in summer of 2008. Today, Masciarelli is the largest organically farmed estate in Italy.