Offida DOCG Pecorino
Guido Cocci Grifoni
This wine comes from our first hectare of Pecorino vineyard, the one where the story of this grape variety began. The first ‘parent’ of Colle Vecchio is today dedicated to Guido Cocci Grifoni and to the bottle that bears his name. It is our most recent declination of Pecorino, a wine made in few numbered bottles, in memory of who, where and when. And not to praise or glorify the past, but to photograph a moment of our past that has become present and future. Using descriptors today, for a wine that will have a life of over ten years, feels almost out of place. Just a few notes then, to give a reference, a trace of its first, very young expressions. Among our whites this is certainly the fullest, the most saline, the most present and the softest. Opens on notes of ripe apple and then moves on to intense and fleshy yellow flowers. Aromatic herbs step forward with determination, bringing a fascinating scent of star anise.
GRAPES
HISTORICAL BOTTLE
SERVING TEMPERATURE
FIRST YEAR OF PRODUCTION
NUMBER OF BOTTLES
YIELD/HECTARE
TRAINING SYSTEM
REFINEMENT
White as the canvas on which to write a story, that of a family and a winery that intertwine like letters in the signature of Guido Cocci Grifoni, placed on the first bill of exchange. It is the reconstruction and the memory of a moment in the history of our winery
GRAPES
Pecorino
HISTORICAL BOTTLE
0,75 L
SERVING TEMPERATURE
12/14°C
Clayey loam with north-west exposure and altitude at 200-250 m a.s.l.
Manual harvest and selection of bunches, from the first ten days of September.
White vinification, thermo-conditioned at 15°C.
Talking about microclimate, soils, the set of factors that determine the uniqueness of a territory, what is called terroir, is of primary importance.
These elements define the character of a wine, they influence its sensorial traits.
Aromas and flavors will develop during fermentation and maturation, enriching the wine with hints that originate in the nature of a specific territory.
All this creates the peculiarities that see the first and main gustatory definition in the vine within a macro-area.
