Tiberio Pecorino Colline Pescaresi 2023

Pecorino is an ancient variety that has always called the mountainous Appennine ridges of the Marche and Abruzzo its home. A low yielding variety due to sterility of the basal buds, over the centuries farmers shied away from it preferring instead to plant easier to grow, more productive varieties. Therefore Pecorino was all but forgotten, and nearly extinct by the 1970s. Times change and today high yields are less important than they once were: modern day wine lovers now clamor for high quality grape varieties. Capable of giving distinctive wines, and Pecorino fills that bill nicely.

The grape is characterized by essentially round leaves and small round very thick skinned berries. The wine is rich in glycerol but also endowed with high total acidity, thereby offering a unique combination of texture and vibrancy. In fact, Pecorino wines have become so popular that much Pecorino has been planted recently, however the grape variety always performs best in hilly vineyard sites rather than flatland areas, which are not its natural habitat.

• Vineyard Area: 9.4 acres/3.8 ha
• Altitude: 1250 feet/380 meters
• Soil: Limestone with marly-gravel subsoil
• average Vine Age: about 24 years
• Vine Training System: Guyot
• Yield: 45 Hl

• Hand harvested third week of August
• Free run juice only
• Fermented in temperature controlled stainless steel tanks using only indigenous yeasts
• No malolactic fermentation
• Aged in bottle

Intense yellow straw color, similarly intense aromas of yellow melon, green fig, yellow melon, sage and rosemary. The flavors echo these notes and complete a full bodied wine. Lingering minerality finishes the experience.

100% massal selection Pecorino; alcohol: 14%; hilly estate site in Abruzzo IGP; planted in limestone soils with marly-gravel subsoil at 1250 feet; vines average 24 years old; fermented in temperature controlled stainless steel tanks using only indigenous yeasts and without malolactic fermentation; aged in bottle before release.