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GEOGRAPHIC AND HISTORICAL REFERENCES
 The
basic
component is the Verdicchio grape , to which can be added other white
berry vines, recommended or authorized in the production zone.
The taste is dry,
harmonious
with a pleasant bitter.
The verdicchio di Matelica is
produced in a narrow land border that interests the province of Macerata and Ancona. In total eight
municipalities: 6 of the province
of Macerata and 2 of Ancona. Rich territories of history and tradition, marked also from the presence of towers and
castles. 
The zone of the highland known as " sinclinate camerte " it is the only zone of the
peninsula, outside of the castles of Jesi, where the vine keeps its
particular characteristics .
This Verdicchio too,has a long tradition and
some old documents reveal that it has always been very
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COUPLING WITH FOODS
We deal with a wine from the multiple approaches even if
it reaches the highest levels with plates of fish. Optimal with raw appetizers
(molluscs of varied species avoiding those at fosfo-iodic taste), with
tasty meat fish,
and sauced, first plates of fish, seafood lasagne and rice.
When it is
more mature is perfectly bound together with the Adriatic sole with "the sapa" and
also with the stoccafisso all'anconetana.
The persistent and fragrant
bouquet, the harmony
of the ingredients, allow it to have numerous other couplings:
with the ham of Carpegna, ciavuscolo (soft cured pork salami), salami of Fabriano, "coppa"of
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VINES
It is obtained with grapes of
Verdicchio vine, for a minimum of 85%. Some grapes coming from white berry
vines can concur to the production of this wine, for a maximum of 15%
ORGANOLEPTIC
FEATURES
ASPECT: Tenuous
straw-colored with light green glares. It tends to the golden one with the
maturation, turns to
the amber one in " the Passito".
BOUQUET: Fresh and resistant fragrance of
fruit,
not completely mature, flowers of grass lands, underbrush. In" the Passito"
becomes heavenly and intense
TASTE: Dry, mellow and pleasant at the first
impact, it turns to fresh with delicate bitter tendency and pseudothermal
heat.
It proposes fresh, fine, elegant fruity-floral emanations. Velvety and
harmonious
in " the Passito"
ALCOHOLIC CONTENT: total minimum "Verdicchio di Matelica " 11,5° C, "
Riserva "12° C. " Passito " 15° C. minimum
TOTAL ACIDITY:
5 per thousand minimum (4
per thousand for " the Passito").
DRY EXTRACT: Minimum 16 per thousand (18 for" the
Riserva ", and 19 for " the Passito").
OPTIMAL AGE
The Verdicchio di Matelica
tipology must be drunk new
WINE-GLASS AND SERVICE
Goblet of medium amplitude and spherical tendency
,uncolored, smooth and
very thin, with a long stem. A goblet more tapered to the edge for a mature wine. The
softness of the wine allows the service around 15° C. It is necessary
a higher temperature (16°-18° C) for a more tannic wine and for that wine
whose body has reached a two, three year maturation.
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