Good Things From Italy - Le Cose Buone d'Italia

Casale Vitali’s farm was created in 1970 by Alfredo and Giuliano Vitali. At first they farmed livestock. With the development of the peach cultivation in the Aso valley, they transformed it into a fruit and vine farm. Casale Vitali’s winery was born modestly in 2003 in the cellar of the country house. Nowadays there is a bottling line and an area for aging wine, a tasting room. Casale Vitali produces:

Falerio Pecorino DOC
Rosso Piceno DOC
Marche Sangiovese IGT
Marche Rosato IGT
Falerio DOC
Marche Passerina IGT

Dianetti Wines is a small winery in Carassai, Le Marche. Dianetti is so small that we can call him a wine artisan but you must better consider smaller wineries because they make better wines and you know why?
Larger wineries don’t need to be as good. Success in the wine business is measured by how well you can sell your product, not how good your product is. Larger wineries have a big advantage when it comes to distributing their products.
For Small wineries, the product have to be better, they spend money on the product and not on marketing.
Big wineries must fill a big demand. The small wineries can, for example, pick and choose its grapes and the larger wineries are forced to buy huge quantities.
The smaller wineries have some cost advantages. Larger wineries are big corporations, with a department for this and a department for that. All that cost needs to get passed on to the consumer. Smal winery don’t have any personnel.

‘Verdicchio dei Castelli di Jesi’ D.O.C (Denomination of Controlled Origin) is one of the most popular white wines in the world and has won numerous awards. The unusual nature of the soil in the Marche area, together with favourable climatic conditions and including the regular breeze (which prevents moisture and mould forming) provides a perfect environment for the development of the grapes. The wines produced in the most sunlit and ventilated areas tend to be more robust and can easily keep for 2 or 3 years, including a short period in oak.