Trebbiano d'Abruzzo
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Faraone, Abruzzo,
Ready, but will keep,
This terrific wine showcases the potential quality of Trebbiano, a variety the Faraone family has been working with since 1971. The low-yielding vines produce intensely concentrated fruit, making a wine with an amazing ability to age. The nose is fragrant and fresh, with wild herbs, waxy citrus, sweet hay and floral undergrowth. The palate is full of fruit, both white stone-fruit and bitter citrus on a bedrock of crunchy, crystalline minerality. Drink now to 2025.
Matt Smith, Buyer (spring 2019)
Matt Smith, Buyer (spring 2019)
Bottle
£15.50
Case price (6)
£93.00
Bottle 6 x 75cl 1cs
£64.08
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Faraone, Abruzzo,
Ready, but will keep,
Despite a very modest 12.5% abv, this Colline Teramane DOCG wine punches above its weight, enhanced no doubt by the stupendous 2010 vintage. A luminous lime-green gold, the nose pings with root ginger and citronelle, of candied citrus fruit even. Precise yet unhurried, the palate charms with lime skin zest, with essential oils and sapidity. It’s so exciting to be able to bring Abruzzo wines of this calibre to your attention; to give them the credit they’re due.
David Berry Green
David Berry Green
Bottle
£19.95
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Bottle 12 x 75cl 1cs
£1,335.00
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Trebbiano is a high yielding white wine grape variety, originated in the South-Eastern Mediterranean. Italy still has extensive plantings of the grape (it accounts for over half of the white wines in the country, with diminishing importance in the recent years).
It is also found in France, where it is known by the name of Ugni Blanc as a major component in Armagnac and Cognac that benefit from its high acidity and subtle flavours.
Trebbiano’s received some poor press over the years being responsible perhaps for too many anodyne Italian whites (and red blends!). However, a new broom across the country has been sweeping away the poorer clones and practices in favour of something far more respectable, such as the examples produced by Monte del Frà