Nicoletta de Fermo
Don Carlino Abruzzo Pecorino
Abruzzi, Italy
The 2019 Pecorino Don Carlino is spicy and sweetly floral, with a whiff of ginger giving way to spring flowers and a hint of wet stone. It’s soft in texture, with a pretty inner sweetness offset by salty acids, as minerals and tart orchard fruits create a display of tension toward the close. Hints of spiced orange and tangerine linger through the long and cheek-puckering finale. The 2019 Don Carlino is a stunning expression of Pecorino, yet it could use a year of cellaring to come fully into focus. (Eric Guido, Vinous, April 2021)
The 2019 Pecorino Don Carlino is spicy and sweetly floral, with a whiff of ginger giving way to spring flowers and a hint of wet stone. It’s soft in texture, with a pretty inner sweetness offset by salty acids, as minerals and tart orchard fruits create a display of tension toward the close. Hints of spiced orange and tangerine linger through the long and cheek-puckering finale. The 2019 Don Carlino is a stunning expression of Pecorino, yet it could use a year of cellaring to come fully into focus. (Eric Guido, Vinous, April 2021)
Elegant and herbaceous with earthy undertones. Notes of citrus fruits and hazelnut with good acidity
Elegant and herbaceous with earthy undertones. Notes of citrus fruits and hazelnut with good acidity
Feb 3rd, 2018
Lots of crisp green apple underpinned by savory herbal minerality. Good flavor concentration and vigor. Valentini’s neighbors!
Lots of crisp green apple underpinned by savory herbal minerality. Good flavor concentration and vigor. Valentini’s neighbors!
1 person found it helpfulFeb 16th, 2018Lot of SO2....
Lot of SO2....
Sep 16th, 2015Expressive, floral, punchy!
What a nose!! Starts with some nice reduction but when it blows off, this just is amazing. Switching from floral and exotic aromas of fleur d’orange, candied citrus, candied ginger and ripe cantaloupe to salty, naked stones. And back. Amazing purity & freshness. So enticing!!
On the palate this is a thin layer of exotic citrus fruit on stony minerality. Juicy acidity, salty freshness, mineral depth. Such precision here. And depth.
What a discovery! This is brilliant stuff!!
Expressive, floral, punchy!
What a nose!! Starts with some nice reduction but when it blows off, this just is amazing. Switching from floral and exotic aromas of fleur d’orange, candied citrus, candied ginger and ripe cantaloupe to salty, naked stones. And back. Amazing purity & freshness. So enticing!!
On the palate this is a thin layer of exotic citrus fruit on stony minerality. Juicy acidity, salty freshness, mineral depth. Such precision here. And depth.
What a discovery! This is brilliant stuff!!
H2O Vegetal. Celler Escoda-Sanahuja, Prenafeta (Tarragona).
29.07.18
H2O Vegetal. Celler Escoda-Sanahuja, Prenafeta (Tarragona).
29.07.18
Wow! Such a spectrum of aromas: banana, candied citrus zest, caramel, red apple peel and a slight oxidized note. It has a plerhora of apple aromas and reminds me of what I find in basque sidra!
Creamy with a balanced, high acidity. Super drinkable!
Wow! Such a spectrum of aromas: banana, candied citrus zest, caramel, red apple peel and a slight oxidized note. It has a plerhora of apple aromas and reminds me of what I find in basque sidra!
Creamy with a balanced, high acidity. Super drinkable!