MIRUM vintage Verdicchio di Matelica DOCG, one of the wines of the Marche awarded in 2021 with the "five bunches" by the prestigious Bibenda guide and with the "four vines" Vitae guide.

A nectar, by its very nature, will never be a summer wine. Wine of high lineage, intended to be produced only in great vintages

Location: municipality of Matelica in Contrada Monacesca
Plant altitude: about 400 meters above sea level
Vineyard area: about 3 hectares
Exposure: north - south
Type of soil: mainly clayey
Training system: arched or inverted espalier
Age of the plant: about 30 years
Plant density: about 1800 plants per hectare
Production per vine: about 2 Kg. Per vine

Harvest: manual harvest in the third ten days of October

Vinification: grapes left to slightly overripe on the plant for about two weeks, and immediate soft pressing without the use of sulfur dioxide; fermentation in steel for about 20 days at 20 ° C, resting on the fine lees until the following spring, natural trigger of malolactic fermentation in early summer

Aging: eighteen months in steel and six months in bottle, to be marketed two years after the harvest, with official release on December 1st, as per production regulations

Organoleptic examination
The slight over-ripening of the Verdicchio grapes allows for an extraordinary starting material which is expressed, after a long aging, with a great olfactory complexity: ample hints of toasted almonds, cedar, honey and bread crust which in the evolutionary phase surprise for the even greater expressiveness
In the mouth it is an explosion of power and balance, very long and deep, rich and opulent

Pairings: wine for non-mature cheeses, smoked starters and white meats with sauces