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Fiorano, Giulia Ermina, Marche Bianco, 2018

The top white at Fiorano, from Pecorino fermented using indigenous yeasts in French barrels and then given eight months in oak on the lees. That oak influence is apparent, over deep flavours of yellow plums and ripe citrus. Impressively weighty. Subtle herbal notes. A wine to accompany rich or creamy dishes, including
veal or pork. Now-2023

We started working with Paolo Beretta (formerly a dentist) and Paola Massi (a research pharmacologist) at Fiorano 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.