Faraone, 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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Bottle
£16.50
Case price (6)
£99.00
Bottle 6 x 75cl 2cs
£69.06
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Faraone, Abruzzo,
Ready, but will keep,
Pecorino is a white grape, traditionally from the hills of Abruzzo, where it is adept at growing in a slightly cooler climate and on clay soil. It is the last grape to flower in the Spring and the first to be harvested in September. Vinified in a traditional white wine-way, the nose shows off notes of white flowers while the ageing sur lie gives it a full body. Sometimes it is described as a red wine dressed as white.
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£18.75
Case price (12)
£202.56
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£22.44
Bottle 12 x 75cl 3cs
£141.96
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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
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£19.95
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Faraone, Abruzzo,
Ready, but will keep,
A wine from Abruzzo’s only and recent DOCG, Colline Teramane, made from Faraone’s Colle Pietro vineyard, not far from the Adriatic, this has a broad, inky brambly soot colour. Similarly on the nose, it resonates with definite blackberry and bramble aromas, while the fine 2006 vintage brings a liquorice dimension. Compact and even slightly meaty; gorgeously generous, smouldering , bramble-hedge fruit, defiantly ‘old school’; this is a classic wine that has enjoyed 20 days of maceration on the skins, boasts 36 grams of dry extract and that was bottled in January 2014, with 350 cases made.
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The Faraone family produces traditional Montepulciano d’Abruzzo wines. Their 9ha property is now focused on the new ‘Collepietro’ vineyard at Mosciano Sant’Angelo in the Colline Teramane DOCG zone of Abruzzo, some 10 miles from the Adriatic.
Faraone’s story dates back to 1916, and particularly to the 1930s when Montepulciano, Sangiovese and Passerina were first planted; bottling started in 1970. Giovanni Faraone makes the wine, aided by his wife Paola & sons Alfonso & Federico; the latter an oenologist who’s worked in France and New Zealand before taking up a post in Umbria. They also make a fine Trebbiano d’Abruzzo, Passerina and Pecorino.