Perticais has always made the benchmark Trebbiano Spoletino wines, already in the days of its first owner, the likeable, well-mannered Guido Guardigli. Though Trebbiano Spoletino as a grape and wine were originally launched by a winery called Novelli (that has since gone out of business), the winery that really put the variety and wine on the map is undoubtedly Perticaia. I was one of the very few wine writers present in those early days of Trebbiano Spoletino production (back in the middle of the first decade of the 2000s) and I can guarantee you there were just a few Italian wine writers paying attention and most everyone else, foreign wine writers included, generally unaware of grape and wine. I actually came and visited the vineyards and looked at the different Trebbiano Spoletino vines growing in the vineyards. I can tell you that back then very few Trebbiano Spoletino grapevines looked the same, and many just called Trebbiano Spoletino whatever white grape they were growing that was not known to be one of the two Grechetto varieties that have always called the Montefalco territory home. And though some wineries like to say they were the first to grow Trebbiano Spoletino and make wine from it, the wine grapes I saw looked nothing like the real Trebbiano Spoletino and the wines didn’t taste much like it either: back then, and the wines made in the area were all over the board. But unlike today, when if that happens it is because of over-enthusiastic winemaking and wanting to try new things, back then the differences in Trebbiano Spoletino wines were the result of most wineries not using the same grape.
