Cantine Belisario Vigneti B Verdicchio di Matelica 2024

Cantine Belisario Vigneti B Verdicchio di Matelica

Region: Marche, Italy

Vintage: 2024

Bottle size: 75cl

Grape: Verdicchio

ABV: 12.5%

The wine is straw yellow in colour with golden highlights. On the nose, it shows interesting aromas of golden apple, pink grapefruit and wax. On the palate, it is soft and round, with a persistent finish.

The Verdicchio grapes are sourced from a 20-hectare vineyard in the locality of Lancioni Calle, situated on south-facing hillsides at altitudes ranging from 420 to 620 metres above sea level. The soils are predominantly clay, while the vines, planted between 2005 and 2006, are Guyot-trained and organically farmed.

The grapes were both hand and machine-harvested, with selection carried out in the vineyard. Fermentation took place in stainless steel tanks over 20 days at controlled temperatures of 14–16°C. The must underwent hyper-oxygenation to minimise the use of sulphites. Following fermentation, the wine was aged for five months in 100hl stainless steel vats.

Cantine Belisario is a 300-hectare cooperative winery in the Matelica DOC, Marche, founded in 1971, where the only permitted grape is Verdicchio. The co-op owns 24 hectares of organically farmed vineyards, inland from the Castelli di Jesi DOC, where the climate is more continental. Here, the combination of warm days and cool nights extend the growing season, allowing the grape's aromatics to develop. As a result, harvest occurs as late as the second half of October. These vines are the source of Cantine Belisario’s organic ‘Vigneti B’ Verdicchio.