Cantina Sangro. Pecorino

Pecorino IGT Terre di Chieti
Grape: Pecorino

A pure, fresh tasting white with cleanly defined peach, mango and lime flavours.  Very superior, everyday drinking. 12.5%

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Pecorino is an important native grape grown widely through the Abruzzo and the Marche.  The name, which it shares with a cheese made from sheep’s milk, can be misleading; pecora is a sheep: pecorino, a small sheep, or a grape type that bears no resemblance to any kind of sheep.  Historically, Pecorino would have been a part of the Trebbiano d’Abruzzo flock, it is now singled out to make its own great monovarietal wines.
High pergolas* provide shade for the bunches; the soils are sandy, rich in nutrients and with a high proportion of small limestone rocks which are good for water retention.  The grapes are hand-picked in the first week of September, gently pressed and fermented in temperature-controlled steel tanks.  The wine is matured with the fine lees* for 5 months with regular stirring (bâtonnage*) before filtration and bottling.