The Little Wine Company Pecorino 2025 Allegrini and orange peel

and orange peel

carrying through to the back palate

Their 13 hectares of vines

with 75% handpicked and 25% machine-harvested grapes

So you could say this is our ‘My Sweet Lord’

The Little Wine Company Pecorino 2025 Allegrini and orange peelThe Wine The grape takes its name from the Italian pecora meaning sheep because the vines grew along the route the shepherds took as they brought the sheep down from the mountains in central Italy (or so the story goes!). Continuing their pioneering role in alternative varieties, winemakers Ian & Suzanne Little have produced one of the first Pecorino wines in Australia. They chose to grow it here in the Hunter Valley for its ability to hold flavour