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Fiorano, I Paoli Sangiovese, Marche IGT, 2022

This is fast becoming one of our best-loved wines: light and fresh, but with plenty of ripe red fruit concentration too.  Really exemplifies Sangiovese's cherry flavours. Pure, long finish. Now-2026

Alistair's choice of what to drink at home: "This organic Sangiovese is all about the freshness of red fruits. I drink it with tomato-based pasta dishes and homemade pizzas. It’s pretty moreish too, and perfectly friendly enough to drink on its own".

We started working with Paolo Beretta and Paola Massi, (he formerly a dentist and she a research pharmacologist) introducing their wines to this country in 2015, with immediate success. Their wines exemplify perfectly the virtues of small-scale - they tend just 5 hectares of vines - organic cultivation. All exhibit an entrancing purity of fruit, and all are bottled with minimal sulphur levels. They consider their grass-covered vineyards lie in a special spot: mainly in an amphitheatre about 250-350 metres up on the eastern side of the Apennines, about 15 kms. from the Adriatic, beside their own olive groves, on a mix of clay, limestone and sand.