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Half bottle of Pecorino Abruzzo Contesa 2021

White Wine from Italy - Central Italy -Tuscany, Umbria

2 Reviews

Rocco Pasetti was one of the very first to champion the excellent Abruzzo white grape pecorino, and he's become a bit of an expert. Green apple-scented with lemon rind and mineral notes on the linear refreshing palate this Italian white pairs wonderfully with fresh salads, seafood or herb-roasted chicken.

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Code: IT33862

Wine characteristics

White Wine
1 - Bone dry
Pecorino
37.5cl (Half Bottle)
Now to 2026
13% Alcohol
no oak influence
Cork, plastic

Contesa

Rocco Pasetti is one of the most dynamic and talented producers we know and a great champion of wines of the Abruzzo. He was for many years the chief winemaker of the Roxan cooperative and one of the reasons we chose their Montepulciano as a Society wine.

More recently he bought his own estate, Vigna Corvino, with 30 hectares outside Pescara, planted with montepulciano and the local white grape pecorino. He also created his own model winery in the centre of the vines. These are planted on gentle hills between the Appennini mountains and the Adriatic sea – at 250 metres above sea level – with moderate rainfall and clay soils, which produce fragrant, rich wines. Rocco has abandoned weed killers and pesticides in favour of more natural methods.

The cellar was completed in 2004 and is carved into the hillside. As well as temperature-controlled stainless-steel tanks, the winery boasts a barrel room filled with Slavonian oak barrels.

Rocco, his wife Patrizia, sons Franco and Ugo and daughter Perla have frequently visited and met members at our Italian tastings. Contesa means ‘quarrel’ in Italian and is a nod back to Rocco’s winemaking great grandfather, who fought a hard battle with a local landowner to preserve his own vineyards back in 1903.

JancisRobinson.com

Straw yellow. Quite a powerful nose of cut lemon and gooseberry that's a little reminiscent of sauvignon blanc, which is probably on purpose. Green-apple and gooseberry palate with a fresh almond and...

Straw yellow. Quite a powerful nose of cut lemon and gooseberry that's a little reminiscent of sauvignon blanc, which is probably on purpose. Green-apple and gooseberry palate with a fresh almond and lemon finish. Not super-genuine or typical but should appeal to sauvignon fans. 15.5/20

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Walter Speller

Wednesday 24th Aug 2022

Belfast Newsletter

... fabulously fresh, lively and zesty ... This elegant, well-structured Italian white has a complex palate wherein pronounced lemon and peach flavours mingle with apricot, hazelnut and minerally...

... fabulously fresh, lively and zesty ... This elegant, well-structured Italian white has a complex palate wherein pronounced lemon and peach flavours mingle with apricot, hazelnut and minerally backnotes before a very clean, judiciously spiced finish. It will also go extremely well with seafood or salads.

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Raymond Gleug

Saturday 27th Aug 2022