Producer | Cantina Ludovico |
Country | Italy |
Region | Abruzzo |
Varietal | White Italian Blend, Trebbiano, Malvasia |
Vintage | 2022 |
Sku | 15383 |
Size | 750ml |
Notes of herbs, white flowers, toasted nuts, pine, and lemon curd. Mid-weight, with striking minerality underneath.
50% Trebbiano, 40% Malvasia, 10% Pecorino (‘Tre + Ma,’ plus Pecorino to top up the tank). Trebbiano and Malvasia are co-fermented, fully destemmed, in one stainless steel tank; Pecorino is vinified separately and then blended into the larger wine later on, toward the end of primary ferment. 10 months' aging in steel, then one-two months resting in bottle before release. Drawn from a few different little pieces of white varieties scattered throughout Lorenza Ludovico's tiny holdings in the mountains of Abruzzo around the town of L'Aquila, at 370m above sea level, on clay-calcareous soils that Lorenza describes as ‘very minerally.’ Vines are around 30 years of age, .3ha of vines total.