Cantina Sangro. Pecorino

Pecorino IGT Terre di Chieti
Grape: Pecorino

This is a lovely vintage, the summer was not too hot, rain came at the right times and the grapes ripened at their own, slow speed. An immaculate fresh dry white, touched with tropical fruit, with lime, kiwi and a squeeze of lychee in the fore.  12.5%

Cantina Sangro and Frentana, Abruzzo producer page

Pecorino is an important native grape grown throughout 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. 

This is a lovely vintage, the summer was not too hot, rain came at the right times and the grapes ripened at their own, slow speed. An immaculate fresh dry white, touched with tropical fruit, with lime, kiwi and a squeeze of lychee in the fore.