Cossignano, Le Marche, Italy

We started working with Paolo Beretta (formerly a dentist) and Paola Massi (a research pharmacologist) in 2015, with immediate success.

Their wines exemplify perfectly the virtues of small-scale - they tend just 10 hectares of vines - organic cultivation. All exhibit an entrancing purity of fruit, and all are bottled with minimal sulphur levels.

Paolo and Paola bought the farm in 1991, and consider their grass-covered vineyards, a beautiful amphitheatre, lie in a special spot: about 250-350 metres up on the eastern side of the Apennines, about 15 kms. from the Adriatic, surrounded by their own olive groves, on a mix of clay, limestone and sand. 

Sangiovese and Montepulciano lead the way for reds; bottled solo and unoaked in I Paoli and Fluente respectively, and joined together in the Terre di Giobbe cuvée. The whites are all about the Pecorino grape. The award-winning Donna Orgilla is vibrant and expressive while the oaked Giulia Erminia is a serious, gastronomic wine that has surprised and converted many a white Burgundy lover.