La Staffa Verdicchio Castelli dei Jesi Classico Superiore DOC 2024

La Staffa Verdicchio Castelli dei Jesi Classico Superiore DOC 2024

Name: La Staffa Verdicchio Castelli dei Jesi Classico Superiore DOC 2024
Brand: unPINNED Wine Club
SKU: STAFFA-VERD-24-BUNDLE
Price: 29.0 USD
Availability: InStock

◌ Organic | ⚘ Indigenous Grape | ☽ Biodynamic Winemaking Practices

A light-bodied, mineral-driven Verdicchio with Asian pear, wet slate, and crème fraîche, delivering a creamy texture and quiet, persistent freshness from start to finish.

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How It Tastes

Minerality

Light ───────●─ Mineral

Texture

Crisp ──────●── Textural

Sweetness
Dry ● ○ ○ ○ ○ Sweet

Acidity
Low ○ ○ ● ○ ○ High

aromas & palate

Asian Pear Skin · Green Apple · Wet Slate · Limestone · Fresh Rainwater · Crushed Seashells · Crème Fraîche · Creamy Lees

What to Pair

Light-bodied with a creamy texture and saline minerality. A natural with anything from the sea or anything fried and crisp.

Fritto misto or fried calamari
Olive all'ascolana (stuffed, fried olives)

About the Producer

Riccardo Baldi grew up in Staffolo, a hilltop town of 2,000 people where, as he puts it, "everyone makes wine." His parents started La Staffa in the early 1990s as hobby winemakers, Riccardo helped with harvests as a teenager, studied economics at university, came back for a vintage with his father Mario, and that was that.

The estate has been certified organic since 2014, and Riccardo has also introduced biodynamic practices in the vineyard including cover crops and herbal treatments. In the cellar, the approach is resolutely hands-off: spontaneous fermentation in concrete tanks, long lees aging for every cuvée, no oak.

His work earned him the Best Winemaker Under 35 award at the 2021 Food & Wine Italia Awards, recognition that was a long time coming for a region that deserves far more attention than it gets.

The Details

Varieties: 100% Verdicchio

Type: White Wine

Region/Country: Castelli dei Jesi, Le Marche, Italy

ABV: 12.5%

Serving Temp: Chill to 45°F–55°F. Pull out of fridge 30 min before serving.

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Why I Chose this Wine

Le Marche sits on the Adriatic coast of central Italy and produces a white grape called Verdicchio that more people should know about. It has this particular combination of minerality and creamy texture that you don't really get elsewhere, and Riccardo Baldi is one of the people most responsible for showing what the grape can do.

I got to meet him recently and within about ten minutes it felt like we'd known each other for years. He's warm, genuinely passionate, and completely unpretentious about is wines.