2021 De Fermo Don Carlino Pecorino Colline Pescaresi

Producer: De Fermo  Region: Abruzzo, Italy  Varietal: Pecorino  Year: 2021  Winemaker Notes:  "From certified-biodynamic estate vines planted on very sandy, calcareous clay. The bunches are partly destemmed and macerated for a few hours, before a very gentle pressing by hand in an old-school vertical pressoir. Only the first-press, aka free-run, juice is used. The wine ferments spontaneously with native yeasts and no temperature control in 500-liter Slavonian oak tonneaux; the fermentations in the cool cellar can go for as long as 9 months to reach dryness. The wine goes through malolactic fermentation--during the lengthy alcoholic fermentation--and is aged in tonneaux for about 9 months. It is bottled withouth fining, filtration or additional sulfur (applied sparingly only during racking). "Don Carlino" was Eloisa de Fermo's great-uncle (whose passion for French wine led him to purchase French oak barrels and Chardonnay cuttings from Burgundy for the family property in the 1920s)."