Structure
Critic scores
No critic score is published for this bottle that we can cite with a reviewer, a vintage and a review year, so none is shown. The rating in the header is our own.
In the glass
Aroma: green apple, nectarine, mandarin, lemon peel, white flowers, aniseed
Palate: citrus, minerality
Single-vineyard Trebbiano from a double Abruzzese pergola over 90 years old, cropped at 27 hectolitres per hectare. The estate calls it very mineral, with green apple, nectarine, mandarin and lemon peel over white flowers and aniseed.
What it pairs with
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Raw red prawns
The wine's tight texture and citrus edge hold up to sweet raw crustacean. -
Turbot baked with potatoes
Eighteen months in bottle give it the weight for baked white fish. -
Aged Pecorino di Farindola
The mineral length answers a salty raw-milk cheese.
Facts
- Producer
- Tiberio · visiting guide
- Grapes
- Trebbiano Abruzzese (100%)
- Classification
- Trebbiano d'Abruzzo DOP
- Oak
- No oak, steel then 18 months in bottle
- ABV
- 12.5%
Frequently asked about Fonte Canale Trebbiano d'Abruzzo
What makes Fonte Canale different from the estate Trebbiano?
It comes from a single 1.5 hectare plot of double Abruzzese pergola over 90 years old, cropped at 27 hectolitres per hectare, and spends 18 months in bottle before release.
What does it taste like?
Tiberio describes it as very mineral, with green apple, nectarine, mandarin and lemon peel shaded by white flowers and aniseed, closing long with harmonious acidity and a dense tactile weave.
Is the wine filtered?
No. Fermentation runs on indigenous yeasts with no malolactic, and the wine is bottled without fining or filtration.