“Senex” Verdicchio di Matelica Riserva DOCG 2021 (BIO)

Bisci | Marche
Soc. Agr. Bisci s.s. | Via Fogliano, 120 | IT 62024 Matelica

11090321 · 0,75 l · 72,00 €/l · Price (DE) incl. VAT, excl. Shippingavailable immediately
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It was in December 1998 when a customer knocked on Giuseppe Bisci's door and asked for "vino d'annata" – young wine, ready to drink straight away. Yet Bisci, as a rule, only sold his Verdicchio after at least two years' ageing. Giuseppe turned the customer away, but the encounter stayed with him. The high-altitude calcareous clay soils of Matelica, where the Apennines rise majestically into the sky, did not produce simple, everyday wines – they were capable of so much more! The continental climate, with sun-drenched days and freezing mountain nights, gave the Verdicchio an intensity, minerality and backbone of acidity that allowed for decades of ageing – something almost unheard of in Italian white wine. That very same day, Giuseppe turned to his cellar master, Aroldo Bellelli: "Let's make a wine for the next person who asks for a young wine – so that we can tell them: we make Riserva, and it's only released after seven years!"

And so Senex was born – Latin for "the old man", an act of defiance that was to become the stuff of legend. Produced only in the finest vintages from the oldest Verdicchio vines in the Fogliano vineyard – planted in 1978 – this rarity matures for 48 months sur lie in glass-lined concrete tanks, followed by a further nine months in the bottle. Only 3,600 bottles leave the estate each year – every single one a testament to patience and terroir. Robert Parker himself described Bisci's Verdicchio as "one of the finest I have ever tasted". It unfolds a multi-layered mosaic of aromas featuring aniseed, liquorice, dried peaches, honey and a hint of lime – dense, mineral and salty, with a finish that seems almost endless. A white wine that defies time. SUPERIORE.DE