Low yield high altitude vines. Late harvest, special vineyard. Getting the drift. Natural fermentation in stainless steel but then 24 months in small barriques and goodly time in bottle before you uncork this baby. Sumptuous, rich, quite overpowering at first, but once you-and-it settle down together, there’s hours of pleasure to be had. We’re not sure how serious you have to be about serious wines, but this is one of our most serious wines, lots of time and care and attention to detail. 

So another Bianca Trading producer and of course it’s another superb family operation who’ve been doing the business for so many generations. And they live in the foothills of the Abruzzi and its all about provenance. Pasetti have been doing this for years. They’ve slowly found the vineyards in the foothills of the wild Gran Sasso are the best,valley of Trino and Pescara. They do care, about all they do. They have changed their labelling, it looks so super stylish now, but the wine also they have continued to improve. The Abruzzi has the climate and the grapes to hit the heights and it can do gorgeous medium priced gear.

Domenico Pasetti is president of the local association of agriculturalists, so he’s interested, as you would be living there, in all forms of agriculture, the land, its produce and he makes a very good case for paying proper prices for real schmutter. So stump up the shreddies. Laura his wife fronts up the stands at the trade shows and shouts at us for more cash. We try, put come on, times is hard, can we have just a little more wine……..