Belisario, Verdicchio di Matelica “Cabraccio” 2022

Producer: Belisario 
Region: Matelica, Marche, Italy
Grape Varieties: Verdicchio
Viticulture: Organic
Category: White Wine
Size: 750ml

What makes a great white wine? Most well informed wine lovers tend to go to the regions of Burgundy, Mosel, Rheingau and Wachau and talk of the combined attributes of ripe (but not over-ripe) fruit, laced with minerality and natural acidity. German and Austrian Rieslings as well as white Burgundies are well known to posses this trilogy of attributes which creates the possibility for a fourth which is the ability to live and develop in bottle into something sublime. The Marches' better Verdicchio's have these same attributes and in Spades! The Gambero Rosso's top category for white trebicchierri winners is in fact Verdicchio and yet here in the USA we are still essentially asleep with regard to the greatness of these wines. Belisario is a coop in the Matelica zone and has taken a page from the best coops of the Alto-Adige in the fact that they are producing wines second to none in their area. Only the prices are a tip off that they are not a small family estate. Four wines, all unique, and all bargains for what they deliver.