Cantina Zaccagnini sits on the inland slopes of Pescara at Bolognano, where Trebbiano, Pecorino, Cerasuolo d'Abruzzo and Montepulciano d'Abruzzo are bottled under the trademark Tralcetto, the hand-tied vine twig that has been the estate's signature since 1978. The cellar is open to visitors most days, with tastings, guided cellar walks and an estate tour that pairs vineyard work with the contemporary art collection installed across the buildings.
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Seated tasting in the estate's art-led tasting rooms, walking through the Tralcetto line with the resident hospitality team. Pours typically include the Pecorino, Trebbiano d'Abruzzo and Cerasuolo d'Abruzzo DOC and finish on a Montepulciano d'Abruzzo Tralcetto. Booking is handled through the winery's hospitality page.
Book this experienceGuided walk through the production hall and the temperature- and humidity-controlled barrel cellar, where the estate ages mostly in French oak with a smaller share of American oak. The visit closes in the bottling area with a short demonstration of how the Tralcetto vine twig is tied to each bottle by hand.
Book this experienceLonger guided tour that links the working vineyards, the cellar and the permanent contemporary art collection installed across the estate since 1984, with optional context on the nearby medieval Abbey of San Clemente a Casauria that gives its name to the San Clemente and Chronicon ranges. Suited to visitors who want history and art alongside the wines.
Book this experienceSeated tasting in the estate's art-led tasting rooms, walking through the Tralcetto line with the resident hospitality team. Pours typically include the Pecorino, Trebbiano d'Abruzzo and Cerasuolo d'Abruzzo DOC and finish on a Montepulciano d'Abruzzo Tralcetto. Booking is handled through the winery's hospitality page.
Book this experienceCantina Zaccagnini was founded in 1978 in Bolognano, a small commune in the Pescara hills where the Maiella, Gran Sasso and Morrone massifs meet the airflow off the Adriatic. The estate sits in inland Abruzzo, a stretch the regional consortium describes as the green lung of central Italy, and the climate it works with is built on cool nights, mountain breezes and long autumn ripening windows that suit Montepulciano and the local white grapes alike.
The estate is best known for the Tralcetto trademark: a short vine twig that has been tied by hand to the neck of every Tralcetto bottle since the early years. The gesture began as a quiet reference to the cycle of pruning and regrowth, and over time it has become the visual shortcut by which buyers recognise Zaccagnini on the shelf, from Bolognano to export markets. Tralcetto today is not a single wine but a line that runs across the Abruzzo DOC family: Pecorino, Trebbiano d'Abruzzo, Cerasuolo d'Abruzzo and the flagship Montepulciano d'Abruzzo.
Alongside Tralcetto, the estate keeps a small set of named ranges that draw on local history. San Clemente takes its name from the medieval abbey of San Clemente a Casauria, a national monument a short drive from the cellar, and Chronicon nods to the medieval chronicles written there by the monk Giovanni di Berardo. Terre dell'Abate is a bag-in-box line built around the pastoral economy of the inland valleys, and the Passiti range concentrates indigenous Abruzzo red grapes for late-harvest meditation wines.
The modern winery was built with a low-impact brief: clean architectural lines, on-site renewable energy, around 15,000 hectolitres of stainless steel capacity and a temperature- and humidity-controlled barrel cellar of roughly 2,600 hectolitres, mostly French oak with a smaller share of American oak. Production runs at roughly 4,500 bottles per hour and the wines all flow through the same site, so a visit takes in the full cycle from press to bottle.
Since 1984 the estate has run a permanent contemporary art collection across its tasting rooms and exterior spaces, hosting artists, musicians and writers under the slogan Wine, the art of man. Visitors today can join a tasting in the art rooms, walk the cellar and barrel room with a guide, or take a longer estate tour that ties the vineyards, the art installations and the nearby Abbey of San Clemente a Casauria into a single circuit. Cantina Zaccagnini is now part of the Argea group, sitting in Argea's Artists portfolio of premium Italian estates, but the Bolognano cellar continues to operate under its own name and tralcetto mark.
Editorially verified by ItalianWines.co.uk.
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Azienda Agricola Ciccio Zaccagnini's current bottle selection is led by Montepulciano d'Abruzzo DOC. The clearest grape signal comes from Montepulciano and Pecorino.
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