2025 Azienda Vitivinicola Tiberio Pecorino Colline Pescaresi IGT, Abruzzo, Italy Chateau Auney The vines are bush pruned

The vines are bush pruned close to the ground

It began as something very exotic

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

The grapes are vinified using three different techniques - carbonic maceration

2025 Azienda Vitivinicola Tiberio Pecorino Colline Pescaresi IGT, Abruzzo, Italy Chateau Auney The vines are bush prunedPecorino 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