2023, Pecorello, Ippolito 1845
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At a glance
- Grape
- Pecorello 100%
- Region
- Calabria, Italy
- Alcohol
- 13.00%
- Body
- Light to medium
- Acidity
- High
- Sweetness
- Dry
- Drink
- Medium (5-10 yrs)
- Pairs with
- Seafood, Salads, Poultry & Pork
Why this wine
A Calabrian grape so rare it was close to extinction, from the oldest working winery in the region. Light, herbal and saline. Bought for curiosity as much as anything, and the better for it.
Our advantages:
Description
How it tastes
Citrus and yellow fruit with mineral tones, beautifully balanced and full of flavour with a fresh finish. An elegant expression of a grape almost nobody grows.
The producer
Ippolito is the oldest winery in Calabria, with over 170 years of history, farming a hundred hectares near the Ionian coast at Cirò Marina. Pecorello is a thick-skinned native variety, mid-to-late ripening and grown almost nowhere else.
Food and drinking
Good with seafood, salads and poultry & pork. Ready now, and will hold for a few years yet. Serve at 8–10°C.