MARCHES

2016

VERDICCHIO DEI CASTELLI DI JESI CLASSICO SUPERIORE

Pievalta was founded in 2002 thanks to the vision of the Barone Pizzini winery (Franciacorta). At the time, the historic estate in Lombardy was thinking of investing outside its own appellation. The winery's CEO, Silvano Brescianini, had already recognized the great potential of Verdicchio as one of Italy's most important indigenous grape varieties. And so he decided to gamble on the Marches, a region rich in history and natural resources and one of Italy's most beautiful landscapes. Barone Pizzini asked a young Milanese enologist, Alessandro Fenino, who had worked a few harvests at the winery in Franciacorta to manage this ambitious project in the Castelli di Jesi appellation. Alessandro left Milan and headed to Maiolati Spontini where he began to study Verdicchio and immediately fell in love with it. From the outset, he farmed the estate organically and in 2005 it was only natural that he would begin a biodynamic conversion of the vineyards. He grows cover crops between the vineyard rows and he treats them with biodynamic preparations to facilitate the formation of fertile hummus. Through his deep respect for the terroir, he has revitalized the growth of other plants as well