Verdicchio grapes, harvested when just ripe to maintain the high acidity of the must and traditional white winemaking.
The wine is then over-ripened in the cellar, in ancient glass-lined cement tanks; only time works to create the maximum possible “tertiarization” of the sensory profile.
It is an important wine for those who love tasting wines that need to be “listened to”.
Year of planting 1982 - Vineyards ctr. Balzani (Matelica)
Hillside location - Southern exposure Altitude 360 m above sea level
Double arched and Guyot training system
Verdicchio grape variety Matelica clone with tight bunches 100%
Harvest defined based on the maturation curves of sugars, total acidity, pH - Harvest in 2-ton grape wagons
White winemaking; cold must decanting - Fermentation footsaccharomices bayanus
Maturation 15 months in glass-lined cement barrels without racking.
Bottling in March of the second year after the harvest - Marketing after aging for 4 months
If stone had a flavor, it would taste like “Meridia”: a mineral, savoury, acidulous, long, full-bodied wine, yellow tending towards golden. It is useful to consume it with medium-aged cheeses, elaborate fish dishes, well-structured first courses, white meats or as a long aperitif and night wine.
Verdicchi are typical because the system is unrepeatable and unreproducible: this is the value, the pride and the greatest responsibility: being a style, not a fashion.
Wineries
Belisario
Via A. Merloni,12
62024 Matelica (MC)
