Wine World: A very nice wine for an attractive price

Searching for a decent bottle of wine that doesn’t cost the earth is a constant battle. In general, you are condemned to brighter, fruitier, younger reds from neighbourhoods where wine is considered more important than gasoline, and purchased in similar quantities per week.
A region than doesn’t draw much attention but is always attractively priced is the Montepulciano d’Abruzzo, a region over on the Adriatic coast. The grape, Montepulciano, is often assumed to be a Sangiovese