Colline Pescaresi IGP Pecorino, 2024

Sage, rosemary and green fig, with a sharp line of acidity running right through it.

Pecorino is an Abruzzo grape that had almost been forgotten. Riccardo Tiberio bought his farm near Cugnoli in 1999, and his children Antonio and Cristiana found old Pecorino vines growing among their Trebbiano and planted from them: massal selection, taking cuttings from your own vines instead of a nursery. Cristiana uses free-run juice only, wild yeasts from the vineyard and stainless steel, and skips the softening malolactic step to keep the acid tense. Sage, rosemary, green fig and yellow melon.