Ventricine
Only finest parts of pigs, breeded in farm, will become Ventricina. It is a coarse texture salami, fermented, of great quality. To eat with tomato salad. Its companion wine is RitoRnato. Sausages and bacon are other delicatessen available at points of sale.
Cheeses
True Abruzzo's Pecorino cheese has a problem: it is not to be found! Most part of production is consumed by producer itself or sold on little local markets. When we talk about true Pecorino cheese we mean that made following the old tradition. Nowadays somebody still uses natural rennet like stomach of kids or lambs, wild cardoon, fig milk. Useasoned cheeses can be eaten with white wines or cerasuolo, meanwhile seasoned one with noble wines like Montepulciano d'Abruzzo.
Wines, ratafias and elixirs
A lot of vineyards are present on hills and slight slopes of this area of Abruzzo. The red wine Montepulciano d'Abruzzo is known and apreciated all over the world. The cooperative stores produce a great quantity of it. On the end of 20th century, some little wine-cellars trae to restore the true ancient value of Montepulciano d'Abruzzo, by means of old procedures, like natural decantation and refinement by oak barrels. Al bianco, i vitigni del Terbbiano d'Abruzzo, Greco, Malvasia e Cococciola conferiscono profumi sensazionali White wines reach sensational vibrations by Trebbiano d'Abruzzo, Greco, Malvasia and Cococciola. You can find them at point of sale of Cattle-track's farms. Directly from our distillers' tradition, we obtain the ratafia by soaking wild and sour cherries in wine and alcohol. The Italian poet Gabriele D'Annunzio defined it as aphrodisiac. We also say it is digestive and refreshing too.
Extra virgin olive oil
Abruzzo people? Strong and kind as the writer Primo Levi said. You will find these spirit in the extra virgin olive oil coming from olive Gentile di Chieti. Healthy (by biological agriculture) with light fruit flavour, with good properties belonging from cool squeezing technique used in some oli-mills. The medical community recommend the use of extra virgin olive oil as condiment for preventing formation of bad cholesterol.
Cakes
Cakes are linked to traditional festivities. Christmas, Easter, carnival, wheat hervest, every event has its own cake or biscuit: scrippelle, caggionetti, cicerchiata, neole "cille aripiene" and tarallucci are the most famous. You can eat it only on correspondent festivities and holidays. For example we not made scripelle during summer!
