Terre di Chieti IGT is a province-wide Indicazione Geografica Tipica title for the Chieti (CH) province in the Abruzzo region in south-central Italy. It was created in 1995. It covers a broad range of sparkling and still wines made mainly from Chardonnay, Pecorino and Pinot Grigio for whites, and from Sangiovese, Montepulciano and international varieties for reds. See also the wines from Colline Teatine which covers wines from around the city of Chieti, the provincial capital.

Of this province Burton Anderson (1990, p.182) says the ‘vast stretches of canopied vines in the often loose, pebbly clay soil of the coastal hills behind Ortona between Tollo and Lanciano are among Italy’s most productive. Wines from the Agro di Vasto between the Sangro and Trigno rivers…hot dry area that seems best suited to table grapes.’

Wine grapes: Maiolica (r).

Wineries

Certified organic: Feudo Antico.

Bibliography

Burton Anderson, The Wine Atlas of Italy (Mitchell Beazley, 1990).