From the oft-forgotten Pecorino variety that is now re-emerging from the Marche, Pecorino bears no relation the familar cheeses of the same name. The commune of Offida was awarded DOC status in 2001 and DOCG in 2010. Fermented and aged in stainless steel. Medium-bodied and balanced with excellent...
60% Pecorino/30% Chardonnay/10% other white varieties. From estate vines, the Pecorino planted in the 1970s and the Chard going back to the 1920s (an old clone now found nowhere else). The fruit is harvested earlier than for the single-variety bottlings. A touch of the blend is from other varieties...
100% Pecorino. From certified-biodynamic estate vines. The bunches are partly destemmed and partly left whole, macerated for a few hours and pressed in an old-school vertical pressoir. The wine ferments spontaneously with native yeasts and no temperature control in 500-liter Slavonian oak tonneaux...
