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GEOGRAPHIC AND HISTORICAL REFERENCES
 The Verdicchio has a consacrated role by now
. The Verdicchio of the Castles of Jesi, compared with the type " Classic", does not introduce variations in the
composition,
in the color, in the alcoholic content.
The diversity is essentially in
the geographic territory that, regarding that " classic", is situated more
North. And it is clearly that also the nature of lands, the microclimate and the insolation can produce,
like it happens, some diversities in the taste.
Some writers, referring to the Verdicchio, supports that
its name would be quite more famous than "the Marches". A great ambassador
who,
as such, can and must be used: the Verdicchio, like the truffles of
Acqualagna and Sant' Angelo in Vado, like the stuffed olives of Ascoli,
like the coastal brodetto, like the stoccafisso of Ancona.The grape Verdicchio is native of the central
Marches: there are not other regions
where they grow equal.
Beyond the traditional "Castles of Jesi" and "Classico" and also
"Sparkling wine",
in disciplining
laws of '95 they have been introduced: "il Riserva", "il Classico Riserva",
"il Classico Superiore", " il Passito".
It is part of the greater part of the
hilly territory of
the province of Ancona with the fulcrum in the castles of Jesi, embracing the valleys of the Misa and
Nevola rivers, including part of Ostra and Senigallia municipalities.
The denomination of " Classic"
is reserved to the Verdicchio produced in the
original zone, the one from the Esino river. Some limited territories of the
province of Macerata are part of such a zone.
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COUPLING WITH FOODS
The wines that go enriching the prototypes "Castles of Jesi" and "Classico" allow a wide range of harmonies and
consequently some couplings, very rarely found in a yellow wine.
It can be asserted that all
the Mediterranean kitchen plates find satisfaction from the approach with one
of " the Verdicchi ": appetizers, white meat, more or less processed,
boiled meats, mushrooms, truffles, vegetable fried.
For these jewels naturally, the traditional coupling
is not put in argument: with fish, crustaceans, molluscs, there is the
election marriage. It is also good with more processed recipes, demanding a
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VINES
It is obtained with grapes of
Verdicchio vine, a native variety, expressing its best characteristics
only in the sunny hills of the Jesi zone. It is allowed the use of the
grapes coming from the Trebbiano Toscano and Malvasia Tuscany vines in not advanced measure
of 15%.
ORGANOLEPTIC
FEATURES
ASPECT: Yellow
straw-colored, when ready it can have shadings tending to the green, turning to the
golden one with the maturation.
BOUQUET: Characteristic, persistent fruity-floral, smell of bitter almonds.
TASTE: Dry, fresh and mellow, it proposes
persistent and intense fruity-floral emanations (peach-tree and almond
tree).Clean and pleasant bitter tendency in equilibrium with soft,
warm pseudothermal perceptions. Fine, elegant, the only one.
ALCOHOLIC CONTENT: total minimum"Castles of Jesi" and "Classico": 10,5° C" Riserva ", " Superiore
Classico" and" Classic Riserva":11,5° C. " Passito": 14° C
DRY EXTRACT: 16-17
per thousand minimum
OPTIMAL AGE
It is to be drunk new.
Some wines coming from sunnier
and ventilated zones, not rare, have a greater longevity and
more character : they are well conserved for 2 and 3 years.
WINE-GLASS AND SERVICE
The semiovoidale shape goblet lengthened
towards
the thin edge, uncolored, with a slender stem, allows it to express at
its best the scents (fruit and flowers) of the wine, present at first. It
must be served at a temperature of 10°-12° C. As an aperitive the optimal temperature is
8°-10° C.
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