Hi-Lo currently stocks the 2021 Montepulciano d’Abruzzo DOC Passomadama and the L’Artista.

Montepulciano d’Abruzzo is the flagship wine of Abruzzo, accounting for over 80% of the region’s DOC production. The soft, round, full-bodied, and juicy red wines are made from the Montepulciano grape which grows and ripens best in Italy’s southern half. Abruzzo is dominated by around 40 co-operatives making approximately 75% of all wine produced here, but it also has a roster of independent producers, including Barba who produces good wines at reasonable prices. A small handful of pioneering producers make wines that stand head and shoulders above the majority of wines made here and are held up as benchmarks for quality not just in Abruzzo, but across Italy.

The Passomadama/Artista wines are born from the desire of the new generation of the Barba family, active for decades in Abruzzo, to enhance and make the most of the characteristics of the best vineyard plots owned.

This experimental project includes approximately  20 hectares of vineyards, in particularly suitable areas of the territory, and at approximately 300 meters above sea level, which allow us to obtain grapes with great potential and extremely interesting wines.

Abruzzo is a fascinating region rich in diverse terrain and landscapes. Not only the beaches and mountains known to tourists but also lakes, rivers, plateaus and valleys, and hills. And it is precisely on one of these hills that border one of these valleys, that of the Vomano River, that the vineyards from which the Passomadama wines are produced are located. From grapes grown at medium altitudes, in one of the most suitable areas of the province of Teramo, in the heart of the production area of ​​the Montepulciano d’Abruzzo, Trebbiano d’Abruzzo, Cerasuolo d’Abruzzo and Colline Teramane Docg Docs.