Wine Entry Detail

Entry Information
Exhibitor	Alpha Box and Dice
Show	2025
Class	5
Entry Number	5#1
Brand	Alpha Box and Dice
Wine Name	X Pecorino
Vintage	2025
Origin	Single Vineyard
Commercial Label	Yes
Availability

Judging Results
Medal / Award	Gold
Overall Score	95
Judge 1	fragrant, chalky, chewy, really interesting phenolics and lingering waxy, flavour and length
Judge 2	sea sand, slight olive brine freshness and lemon skin. In the savoury realm but a nice sherbet lift. great texture, creamy + crunch, and mid palate volume. Pillowy florals, shapley and good length.
Judge 3	Warm deeper straw colour, not brilliantly clarified, perhaps a few days of skin contact in play here. Nose shows a mellowness and fullsomeness, still some of the florals and yellow apple and cashew meat thing but more fullsome. Palate showing some power and heft, nice tang and flow. Slightly tinny finish but still quite refreshing.
Associate Judge	Dried apricot. Blossom, Sulphur, generous weight to palate which is balanced nicely with phenolic and acid. Nice wine once sulphur blew off a little

Varietal: Pecorino, GI: Adelaide Hills, 100%
Clone	Unknown, Roostock: Unknown, 100%
Growing Method	Conventional

Wine Making Information
Ferment	Clay Amphorae 10%
Ferment	Stainless Steel 90%
Maturation	Small Format Oak 90%
Maturation	Concrete 10%
Closure	Screw
Cases Produced	222
Force Class	False
Winemaker Note	Sam Berketa