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Pecorino Abruzzo, Contesa 2025
White Wine from Italy - Abruzzo
Rocco Pasetti was an early champion of the excellent white pecorino grape, and he's now an expert. With green-apple scent and lemon-rind and mineral notes on the linear, refreshing palate, this pairs well with fresh salads, seafood or herb-roasted chicken. One of our Wine Society Pioneers, Contesa is rated in the top 100 sustainable companies by their local government agency. They use sexual confusion techniques as an alternative to chemical pest control of local vine moths, encourage wildflowers and grasses to attract pollinators and built a solar power plant on their winery roof which currently generates 50kW and covers 60% of their energy needs, and plan to build another 30kW of panels that will bring this up to 80%. Furthermore, Contesa use bottles produced entirely within Italy and of at least 58% recycled glass to reduce their carbon footprint.
Price:
£11.95
Bottle
(£15.93/litre)
Price:
£71.50
Case of 6
(£15.89/litre)
Due in on 13/07/26
Code: IT46131
Wine characteristics
- White Wine
- 1 - Bone dry
- Pecorino
- 75cl
- Now to 2027
- 12.5% Alcohol
- no oak influence
- Cork, plastic
- 457 g (Empty bottle weight)
- Vegetarian
- Vegan
- Organic
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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.