2024 Vigneti B Verdicchio di Matelica, Cantine Belisario

• Style: Crisp, mineral, off-dry
• Taste: Golden apple, pink grapefruit, waxy texture, clean acidity
• Food: Shellfish, white fish, antipasti, salads
• Occasion: Weeknight, Sunday lunch, summer, aperitivo
• Serve: Chilled, 8–10°C, within 3–4 years

In the Glass — Tasting Notes

Straw-yellow with golden hints, this wine opens to aromas of golden apple and pink grapefruit layered with a waxy, textural note. The palate is soft and round, yet acidity runs clean and persistent, delivering brightness and mineral grip with the kind of savouriness that makes seafood sing.

The Winery — Cantine Belisario

A 300-hectare cooperative in Matelica DOC, Cantine Belisario farms 24 organic vineyards inland from the coastal Castelli di Jesi zone, where continental air and elevation stretch the growing season and build aromatic depth. The 2024 harvest was selective and labour-intensive, and the fruit comes from 420–620 metres altitude. Fermented cool in stainless steel and aged five months in large vats without oak, this Verdicchio sits at 12.5% ABV as a textbook example of what site-expressive, low-sulphite winemaking can achieve.

At Your Table — Food Pairing & Serving

A natural partner for grilled white fish, creamy seafood pastas, and Mediterranean antipasti spreads — cured fish, soft-shell crab, calamari. Equally at home as an aperitivo or weeknight white with salads and light vegetable dishes. This is wine built for the table rather than show, with the structure to age gracefully over the next 3–4 years. Whether you're after an everyday white with substance or a food wine that actually performs, it deserves a place in your rotation. Explore the rest of what we've found in Verdicchio, or discover more from Italy and Marche — you may be surprised by the range.