Sciarr Trebbiano d'Abruzzo

Sciarr is the line the D'Alesio family dedicates to its forefather Alessio D'Alesio, "lo Scione", whose portrait is on the label and whom the family describes as impetuous and cyclonic. This is the Trebbiano d'Abruzzo of the line, from the estate's certified-organic vineyards at Città Sant'Angelo, in the Pescara hills a few kilometres from the Adriatic.

The producer's sheet for the wine, last revised in late 2023, describes vines about 30 years old at 300 m, trained in rows on medium-density clay and facing north-east. It gives a crop of around 90 hl/ha. The grapes are picked by hand into crates in September, with a careful sorting. They are soft-pressed, the must is cold-settled, and fermentation runs in stainless steel. The sheet mentions no wood at any stage.

That sheet was written for a Trebbiano d'Abruzzo Superiore at 14%, held at least ten months in steel and three more in bottle. The 2025 is a plain Trebbiano d'Abruzzo at 12%, bottled on 16 April 2026, about seven months after the harvest. So this release did not follow the sheet's ageing schedule, and the sheet's vineyard and yield figures may not carry over to it exactly.

The 2025 forecast of Assoenologi, UIV and Ismea put Abruzzo's crop 25% above 2024, a recovery after a hot and drought-hit year. It describes a winter of heavy snow in the mountains and rain on the coast, even budbreak, no disease problems, and strong day-night temperature swings during ripening. Picking began in the last ten days of August, early in many zones for white grapes such as Trebbiano and Pecorino, which the forecast says reached a very good balance of sugar and acidity. Nicola D'Auria of the Movimento Turismo del Vino Abruzzo spoke of two months without water before rain refreshed the vineyards in the weeks up to early September, and of very healthy grapes.