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Ancona Wine Tour

June 11, 2012 By Leave a Comment

If you want to discover what the Ancona area has to offers in terms of wine, here you have all the resources to do it. Conero a Docg wine (85% Montepulciano and Sangiovese up to 15% maximum), Verdicchio Castelli di Jesi Riserva Docg Riserva and Riserva Classico (minimum aging of 18 months, including at least [...]

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Best Wines of Le Marche: Conti di Buscareto, Lacrima di Morro d’Alba Doc Passito 2008

June 4, 2012 By Leave a Comment

The grapes, picked at the end of September in S. Amico vineyards near to Morro d’Alba, collected in small cases and shrivelled until the next February. Dried grapes are then pressed and the juice fermented with skins for two weeks. The wine is aged for 12 months in small steel tanks and matured for two years in [...]

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Lacrima di Morro d’Alba – Tears of Joy

March 25, 2012 By Leave a Comment

This wine springs from the soils of the Marche region of Italy, province of Ancona, and most precisely, the little town of Morro d’Alba. Just in this place, and in a few surrounding hamlets, grows one of Italy’s, and indeed the world’s most distinctive grapes: Lacrima (di Morro d’Alba). Those with some familiarity with Latin-rooted [...]

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Awarded Wines Le Marche: Lacrima di Morro d’Alba Passito 2009 Conti di Buscareto

February 14, 2012 By Leave a Comment

Lacrima di Morro d’Alba Passito 2009 - 13.00EUR Lacrima di Morro d’Alba PassitoThe wine has been prized with “5 grappoli” by the AIS Guide “Duemilavini”. The grapes, picked at the end of September in S.Amico vineyards near to the Village of Morro d’Alba, collected in small cases and shrivelled until the next February. Dried grapes are then [...]

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