2025 Azienda Vitivinicola Tiberio Pecorino Colline Pescaresi IGT, Abruzzo, Italy Chateau Auney Generally 50% Chardonnay

Generally 50% Chardonnay

crushed violets

sandy and well drained

5% white grapes and other varieties

2025 Azienda Vitivinicola Tiberio Pecorino Colline Pescaresi IGT, Abruzzo, Italy Chateau Auney Generally 50% ChardonnayPecorino 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