Abruzzo Wine and the Excellent Fontefico Titinge Riserva
The Fontefico winery is an artisan wine producer which produces around 20,000 bottles of wine each year, and what it produces, four reds and a white, it produces lovingly. Fontefico also exports its wines all over the world.
I met one of the winery’s owners, Napa Valley trained Nicola Altieri, and he was overflowing with enthusiasm. Nicola runs Fontefico with his brothers Alessandro and Emanuele.
By the way, Nicola decided to find out about wine in California’s Napa Valley because he knew that this area is expert not only in wine making, but also in wine marketing. It’s no good making the best wines in the world if you are unable to help wine aficionados discover them!
When people like what they do, they tend to do a good job – especially when it is their own business. Nicola and his brothers like what they do. I like what they do too, especially one of their wines which they have to all intents and purposes invented – Titinge Riserva.
Tasting Fontefico Wines
The wines Fontefico produces, and which I tasted, are:
Pecorino 2007 – a white wine which got its name from shepherds who noticed that their sheep liked eating a particular kind of grape. “Pecorino”, which is also the name of a cheese made is various regions of Italy, also means “sheep” in Italian. Fontefico’s white, and bear in mind that I’m neither a wine sommelier, nor a great lover of white wines, tasted fruity and somewhat salty to me. The saltiness of this wine is one of its characteristics I was told by Nicola. This means this white pairs with salty foods, such as fish and seafood. Read More
Disclosure: the above article used with permission from Italychronicles.com
