Torre dei Beati
Abruzzo, ItalyTorre dei Beati farms 21 hectares of organically certified vines around Loreto Aprutino, in the inland Pescara hills of Abruzzo, where the Tavo valley climbs from the Adriatic toward the Gran Sasso. The estate, family-run by Adriana Galasso and Fausto Albanesi since 1999, focuses on the three native grapes that define the region: Montepulciano, Pecorino, and Trebbiano d'Abruzzo. Its Cerasuolo d'Abruzzo Rosa-ae was named Rosé of the Year by Gambero Rosso, a useful signal of where the cellar's attention sits.
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Est. 1999 
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About Torre dei Beati
The estate name traces back to a 14th century fresco in the local church of Santa Maria in Piano, where a tower of the blessed marks the final destination of souls climbing through the trials of Judgement Day. The metaphor, fitting for a vineyard project, sits at the centre of the labels and the working philosophy: patient selection, vineyard by vineyard, parcel by parcel.
The current chapter began in 1999, when Adriana Galasso and Fausto Albanesi took over the vineyards their father Rocco had been farming since 1972 and bottled their first wine the following year. They converted the entire estate to organic farming from the outset, certified under EU rules. The cellar sits in the old farmhouse at the centre of the property, expanded over time with an underground ageing room to handle the longer cycles of Montepulciano d'Abruzzo Riserva.
The 21 hectares spread across the hills of Loreto Aprutino, between 250 and 300 metres on clay and limestone soils with a sandy substrate. The Adriatic sits 25 kilometres east; the snow capped peaks of the Gran Sasso, the highest point of the central Apennines, close the horizon to the west. Older parcels still grow on the wide pergola abruzzese, the traditional canopy that cools the bunches in a region where afternoon sun is fierce. Newer plantings move to higher density espalier and shorter Guyot pruning. Harvest is manual and staggered over several passes per parcel, picking only ripe and clean fruit.
The portfolio circles three native grapes. Pecorino, in the Giocheremo con i Fiori bottling, leans on the variety's natural acidity and aromatic edge after six months on the lees in steel. Trebbiano d'Abruzzo in Bianchi Grilli is a cleaner, vineyard led take on a grape that often gets diluted at industrial scale. Cerasuolo d'Abruzzo Rosa-ae is a serious dark rosato made by short maceration of Montepulciano, less a summer drink than a structured pink that carries grilled fish and roast vegetables. The reds run from a juicy Montepulciano d'Abruzzo through the single vineyard Cocciapazza to Mazzamurello, an old vines Riserva that anchors the cellar's reputation.
Torre dei Beati is one of the small group of producers that turned Loreto Aprutino into a reference point for organic Montepulciano d'Abruzzo. The wines drink well young but reward time in bottle, particularly the Riserva, and the rosato is a useful entry point for tasting Montepulciano outside its tannic register.
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Torre dei Beati on the Abruzzo wine atlas
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Torre dei Beati farms 21 hectares around Loreto Aprutino, in the Pescara hills of Abruzzo, between 250 and 300 metres of altitude. The Adriatic sits 25 kilometres east, and the Gran Sasso closes the horizon to the west.
