Verdicchio, Lucchetti 'Birbaccio'

Fresh, sweet honeysuckle nose, white flowers. Lemon curd, guava, gravel, lime. Delicate, pretty, with weight and minerality. Mario Lucchetti focuses on the importance of restoring the native grapes of the Le Marche region of Italy, Lacrima di Morro (previous wine club selection) and Verdicchio. The soils are potassium-rich and iron-poor, creating distinctive and aromatic wines. 100% Verdicchio di Castelli de Jesi.

Mario Lucchetti began in the 1980s with the first acres of Lacrima di Morro d’Alba, one of the local indigenous varietals in this rural area of Le Marche in the province of Ancona, not far from the town of Jesi. His passion focused on restoring the importance of the area’s native varietals. With new plantings in 2004, the estate’s total vineyard size expanded to 14 hectares and continues to grow today. In recent years, Mario’s son Paolo completed his degree in enology and is now working side by side with his father to carry the family tradition into the next decades. The focal point of the winery is their basic Lacrima bottling, but they also produce the “Guardengo” single-vineyard bottling as well as an Amarone style Lacrima made from partially dried grapes. Annual production remains well under 10,000 cases per year.