2025 Azienda Vitivinicola Tiberio Pecorino Colline Pescaresi IGT, Abruzzo, Italy Dornoch Distillery Fermented in stainless steel

Fermented in stainless steel

The Sauvignon Blanc comes from the Juliana Vineyard in Pope Valley

Fermentation with 40% whole clusters with the German clonal material being left whole as the grapes are bigger and vines older

To source grapes from someone that is just as nerdy as I  am about viticulture

The vines are farmed organically (conversion since 2009) and hand-harvested

2025 Azienda Vitivinicola Tiberio Pecorino Colline Pescaresi IGT, Abruzzo, Italy Dornoch Distillery Fermented in stainless steelPecorino 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