From a winery based in Ascoli Piceno (in the Marche region), the Velenosi 2020 Offida Pecorino Rêve is packaged in another very heavy glass bottle. The wine inside pours forth with a light golden hue and greenish reflections. The bouquet starts off with neutral aromas but slowly opens to honey, peach and sweet almond or pine nut.

The Velenosi 2016 Offida Pecorino Rêve offers a fresh and transparent expression of the very promising Pecorino grape. This interpretation benefits from the warm-climate influences that characterize the Adriatic Coast. The quality of fruit is supple and soft, with citrus and orchard fruit, saffron and crushed stone, making it ideal for oysters. The wine is fermented in stainless steel, and afterward, half the wine ages in barrique and the other half continues its aging in steel vats. Some 15,000 bottles were made.

Velenosi is one of the landmark estates of the Marche region of Central Italy. The 2011 Offida Pecorino Rêve paints a beautiful portrait of this up-and-coming white grape variety. Aged equal parts in both stainless steel and barrique, it opens with a bright golden color and beautifully fragrant tones of stone fruit, apricot, sweet vanilla, exotic fruit and white mineral. This is not a wine to be underestimated. In fact, it plays out in the mouth with intensity and surprising complexity. If you are looking for a full-bodied white from central Italy, Rêve is one of the best choices you can make.