2025 Azienda Vitivinicola Tiberio Pecorino Colline Pescaresi IGT, Abruzzo, Italy Chateau Auney sandy tannins and bright acidity

sandy tannins and bright acidity carry a long

Generally 50% Chardonnay

The vines are bush pruned close to the ground

Aged in neutral vessels for 6 months before bottling

This pure Nerello Mascalese comes from our cru in contrada Monte Colla

2025 Azienda Vitivinicola Tiberio Pecorino Colline Pescaresi IGT, Abruzzo, Italy Chateau Auney sandy tannins and bright acidityPecorino is an ancient variety that has always called the mountains 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; and so, 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