Sciaccarellu

Also known as: Sciaccarello (French spelling)

A Corsican grape variety you’ll never forget once you’ve encountered it. Sciaccarellu smells of pepper and tastes of the wind blowing over the maquis – herbal, saline, with a freshness you’d expect more at the coast than in the vineyard. No fruit attack, no sweetness, but something that tastes of stone and the Mediterranean.

Abbatucci is the specialist for this grape. Jean-Charles Abbatucci farms old, ungrafted vines biodynamically and makes wines from them that show why Corsica isn’t a French province, but a world of its own.