Features
Name:
"Bianchi Grilli' Abruzzo DOC Pecorino 2022
Terrain:
clay-limestone on sandy substrate
Cellar
The family-run company was established in 1999, when they decided to take over the vineyard cultivated for many years by their father Rocco. The name of the company derives from a detail of a large fresco from the 1400s, which is in the local church of S. Maria in Piano.
In the precious depiction of the Last Judgement, the 'tower of the blessed' represents the final goal to which, with great effort and through difficult trials, the souls that have just passed into the afterlife tend. This parable reflects the inspiring principle of our activity, which is based on the desire to express, through careful selection in the vineyard and in the cellar, the best of the native vines that we grow in the particularly suitable territory of Loreto Aprutino. Convinced of the impossibility of separating the concept of a wine's quality from that of its genuineness, they immediately converted the vineyard to the organic method, and the first bottle was made in 2000.
Description
The name Bianchi Grilli denotes limited productions of white wine born of our willingness and pleasure to explore and experiment, in accordance with the potential of our grapes.
'Crickets, so to speak, that we can't get out of our heads'. It is a Trebbiano that stands out for its finesse and savouriness.
Organoleptic characteristics:
Straw yellow colour with golden green hues. Ageing on the fermentation yeasts enhances the balsamic and officinal spiciness of the variety, which seems to be partially stripped of the aromatic imprint of youth, to acquire deeper and more complex tones with bottle ageing, probably more expressive of the still little-explored authenticity of this variety.
The very pronounced acidity and minerality of Pecorino are confronted with the softness typical of maturation in wood, without being tamed by it, and on the contrary, giving reason for the great potential of the variety.
Storage time:
3-6 years
Vinification
In steel and acacia tonneau for the 30%
Acknowledgements
2021 Luigi Veronelli 94/100
2020 Red Prawn 
2020 Vitae AIS 
