A Lovely Verdicchio Full of Soul and Flavour! Terralibera 'Da Solo'

We are happy to offer a wine recently tasted that was deliciously impressive...
2022 'Da Solo' Verdicchio dei Castelli di Jesi DOC Classico Superiore

Poured by the grower/producer, Gian Mario Bongini, I was captured by what was in the glass.  
Much deeper than most Verdicchio, this had a Burgundian sensibility to it.  Terroir-driven with great minerality, yet expansive and textural with more layers and an extra dimension.  Salted lemon, polished stone, peach and orchard fruits with great balance and a longer finish that caused the palate to salivate.  A serious Verdicchio for sure!

Curious, I asked about how he made the wine and to describe the vineyard.  

Gian Mario makes only two wines, both single-vineyard Verdicchio in a single swathe of vineyards in the Serra de' Conti region of Le Marche, in the Castelli di Jesi denomination. What emerges from this small jewel of a project, is a beautiful look into Verdicchio, one of the most undermined white varietals in Italy today. "Insieme" and "Da Solo" are made from two unique parcels in the same contrada with different altitudes, different soils and different expositions.

Terralibera, meaning freedom of the land, is a personal venture for Bongini who wagered his career in corporate finance on a place that brought out the best in him; Le Marche. He first dipped his toes in the winemaking sphere here years ago as a partner in a collaborative winery together with friends. Ten harvests rolled by but Bongini's desire for precision and his pursuit of excellence parlayed into the search for vineyards to call his own and a more personal approach to Verdicchio, a grape that he believes in steadfastly. Terralibera is just that, and striving for more.

The site: From the single 1.4-hectare parcel of Contrada San Paterniano in Serra de’ Conti with north west exposure at around 300 meters above sea level. Soils are medium-grain clayey sand. Hand harvested, destemmed and softly pressed, then clarification of the must through decantation followed by spontaneous fermentation using pied de cuve from the same vineyard. The wine rests on its fine lees in stainless steel for six months and then undergoes another 6 months’ aging in bottle before it is released. No sulfur is used during the fermentation or aging processes, only a small dose right before bottling.

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