TASTING NOTES:

Nose: light-fleshed fruit, minerality, creamy texture. Asian pear skin, green apple; wet slate / limestone / fresh rainwater; crushed seashells; crème fraîche

Palate: light body with a lovely creamy texture and moderate acidity.

FOOD PAIRING RECOMMENDATION:

fritto misto or fried calamari
or
olive all’ascolana → stuffed, fried olives

ASHWIN'S REFLECTION:

Riccardo Baldi of La Staffa started in the winery as a teenager and has begun to develop a (admittedly niche) reputation for his expressions of Verdicchio. While Le Marche is a generally lesser-known wine region of Italy, there are some wonderful wines if you know where to look. Riccardo takes a manual and minimal intervention approach to winemaking with organic farming, hand-harvesting/hand-sorting, spontaneous fermentation, lees aging, and so on → i.e. a very respectful and time-intensive approach to winemaking for which we, the wine drinkers, are rewarded with an expressive, textural white that shines in the glass.