The 30-year-old vines in Poggio San Marcello - part of our Roots&Souls vineyard project - produce very rich berries, so we selected the northernmost part of the vineyard, where less sun helps retain freshness while still developing aromatic complexity. In the cellar, we focused on maximizing the grapes’ potential: very gentle skin contact during pressing for added edge, followed by spontaneous fermentation in steel vats. For the refermentation, we chose to freeze a portion of the same must from the first pressing and add it back just before bottling. This provided natural sugars for pressure while preserving the wine’s original aromatic profile.
The wine was bottled in December to finish fermenting.

Albamocco is one of those growers we’re drawn to because of how they farm first and talk second. Small plots, hands in the vineyard, nothing exaggerated in the cellar. Wines like this only exist because someone decided not to industrialize something that could easily have been scaled up. The 6/Ottavi Rifermentato carries that spirit. It’s refermented in bottle, left slightly hazy, alive in a way that reminds you wine is an agricultural product, not a formula. The bubbles are gentle and integrated, and there’s a grounded, savory edge that keeps it from ever feeling frivolous. We’re always looking for bottles that feel connected to land and to a person. This one does. It tastes like someone made it deliberately and carefully, not because a market demanded it.

Located between the two wine-growing villages of Castelplanio and Poggio San Marcello in the province of Ancona, Albammaco is a project with a drive to create Verdicchio Classico dei Castelli di Jesi that shows the love the couple feels for their adopted home. Alessandra Venturi and her husband Filippo Russotto found this love after exploring the Marche and getting stranded during their travels - a local winemaker helped them return their vehicle to the road and introduced them to his vineyards and cellar. This was the moment of revelation for the couple, who immediately decided to uproot their life for the Marche. They acquired land and farmed olives trees, began planting vines around these trees, and acquired an abandoned vineyard to begin the process of lovingly returning it to a fertile and flourishing site. Always farming as sustainably as possible, with a lean towards biodynamics, each bottle of wine made represents the intense passion Alessandra and Filippo have for their farm and new home.