| Producer | La Staffa |
| Country | Italy |
| Region | Marche |
| Varietal | Verdicchio |
| Vintage | 2019 |
| Sku | 03476 |
| Size | 750ml |
| ABV | 13.50% |
One of the more brilliant Italian white wines we've tasted in recent years, but all too limited. It’s from a remarkable vineyard planted in 1974 on a small hillside plot where lots of limestone mixes in with Jesi's mainly clay soils. The vines are in the middle of a forest, which moderates temperatures a bit but also poses plenty of farming challenges due to relatively high humidity. In the very best of vintages (so far, just 2015 and 2017), Riccardo picks the fruit late for full ripeness, crushes and allows it to oxidize before fermentation in concrete before giving a year on the lees in vat and three more years in bottle.
It's a wild and wildly complex wine of huge richness and sweetness of fruit with layers of wildflower and herbal complexity and a very long and intensely mouthwateringly dry finish. Gambero Rosso in Italy described it this way:
"The scents are fine and pure. Delicate, fresh and precise with hints of wisteria, lime and a clear caress of anise. The mouth is beautiful on the tactile level, creamy and crystal clear on the aromatic level, with savoury sensations that definitely lengthen and make it continuous, also giving light spicy profiles, white pepper and ginger. The progression is driven by a very high acidity but perfectly integrated into the body of the wine, for a very fresh finish, of harmony and brightness. So much class and enormous evolutionary potential." Gambero Rosso 96 points
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