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Fiorano, Terre di Giobbe, Rosso Piceno Superiore, 2021

Rosso Piceno Superiore comes from a group of 13 villages near Ascoli Piceno. This example is from 80% Montepulciano aged in old French oak barrels and 20% Sangiovese from stainless steel, adding some freshness. Ripeness and meatiness. Dark-fruited - blackberries and blackcurrants - and potent, with notes of black olive. This big, structured wine demands robust food: one would drink it there with the wild boar of Norcia – but anything slow cooked would be as good here, for example belly of pork. Now-2029

We started working with Paolo Beretta and Paola Massi, 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: 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.