Est. 2000 
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Visits and tastings at Agricola Tiberio in Cugnoli are arranged directly with the estate via the official contacts page. There is no public online booking system.
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Abruzzo, ItalyAgricola Tiberio works thirty hectares of calcareous and clay soil between the Maiella massif and the Adriatic, near Cugnoli at 350 metres above sea level in inland Pescara. Riccardo Tiberio bought the estate in 2000 around an old plot of Trebbiano Abruzzese; since 2008 his children Antonio and Cristiana have run vines and cellar, with Cristiana in charge of winemaking and Antonio of viticulture.
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Abruzzo
- Est. 2000
- 4 wines
- Tastings
- Tours
- Accommodation
- Booking required
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Estate visit and tasting by appointment
Visits and tastings at Agricola Tiberio in Cugnoli are arranged directly with the estate via the official contacts page. There is no public online booking system.
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The story sits beneath the Maiella and Gran Sasso, twenty-three miles inland from Pescara on a hillside above Cugnoli. Riccardo Tiberio, then export manager for an established Abruzzese cantina, found a plot of Trebbiano Abruzzese vines around sixty years old and bought it in 2000. Trebbiano Abruzzese is a real and rare grape, repeatedly confused over the decades with Trebbiano Toscano and other lookalikes that were planted in its place. The eight original hectares came with another thirty-one hectares of land suitable for planting, and the estate's first vintage was bottled in 2004.
The vineyards now cover thirty hectares between 330 and 380 metres on calcareous soils mixed with limestone and clay. A pleasant Adriatic breeze meets cold currents off the Maiella, and vine ages run from twenty-five to ninety years; the oldest Trebbiano Abruzzese parcels are among the longest-standing in the region. A Pecorino vineyard planted in 2000 is one of the earliest of the modern Pecorino revival in Abruzzo. Replanting has stayed close to the estate's original DNA, using massal selections taken from the oldest vines rather than commercial clones.
Antonio and Cristiana Tiberio took over in 2008. Antonio, a viticulture and oenology graduate, runs the agronomy. Cristiana is a chemistry graduate who has studied with Jacques Selosse in Champagne, Egon Muller in the Mosel, Nicolas Joly at the Coulee de Serrant and producers in Chablis and Australia's Clare Valley; she has been sole winemaker at Tiberio since 2011. The pair pulled out the international varieties their father had experimented with and replanted Pecorino and Trebbiano Abruzzese, and vinifications stay deliberately quiet so the wines move with the vintage rather than against it.
The cellar makes Trebbiano d'Abruzzo DOP, Pecorino IGP, Cerasuolo d'Abruzzo DOP and Montepulciano d'Abruzzo DOP, with single-vineyard expressions including Fonte Canale Trebbiano, Colle Vota Pecorino and the Archivio long-aged Montepulciano. The whites are tense and saline, the reds keep their fruit and stay measured rather than concentrated. Vinous, Decanter, Wine Spectator, Terroir Sense and the New York Times all run regular coverage of the estate, and Fonte Canale 2017 has been scored 96 points by Vinous.
Visiting Agricola Tiberio
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What Agricola Tiberio makes
Agricola Tiberio's current bottle selection is led by Montepulciano d'Abruzzo DOC. The clearest grape signal comes from Montepulciano.
Common questions
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Agricola Tiberio is in Cugnoli, in the province of Pescara in inland Abruzzo, on a hillside about 350 metres above sea level and roughly twenty-three miles from the Adriatic coast. The vineyards sit between the Maiella massif and the Gran Sasso, on calcareous soils mixed with limestone and clay.
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