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Il Corincino “Il Corincino” Verdicchio dei Castelli di Jesi 2017

Verdicchio from Le Marche, Italy

$39

$37ea in any 3+
$35ea in any 6+
Closure: Cork
This was one of the first Italian white wines to grab my attention & was for a long time a house staple. Now it's back!

Description

Sitting between the entry-level ‘Il Baco’ and the single vineyard ‘Gaiospino’, ‘Il Corincino’ offers the perfecting stepping stone between the two. That extra bit of definition, complexity, and, body shinning through.

Verdicchio is a superb variety of real character. Il Coroncino is one of the great producers! In the search for Italian whites of real personality, it made it back on my radar. It’s everything I remembered. Inviting aromas, spice and perfume, that perfect balance between sweet fruit and earthy, savoury goodness. Perhaps the element that makes this wine for me is the texture, silky, supple, just the right amount of extraction from the skins to give it superb mouthfeel and a silvery line of bitterness that works so well in good Italian whites to help give their wines a clean finish and make them such a great accompaniment to food.

Make sure you give it heaps of air to bring out it’s best prior to drinking. I generally chuck it in a decanter and drink it out of a Burgundy glass.

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Why is this Wine so Yummy?

It’s had the perfect interplay with oxygen during maturation, giving it wonderful secondary development, whilst maintaining freshness, without oxidation.

From a winemaking perspective, this can only be achieved with quality fruit, anything less would see the wine fall about. It also means the wine is more stable wine exposed to air and will last longer once the bottle has been opened. Never makes it more than a night at Wine Decoded HQ!

Granted DOCG in 2009.

Il Coroncino’ is made from a selection of grapes from the Coroncino and the Cerrete vineyards and is bottled from the free-run juice. The soil at these sites is primarily clay.

Not fertilized for over 25 years. No machines on the vineyard. The fruit is hand-picked. Crushed with stalks into modern airbag press.

Although an organic producer, he sees no need to promote the fact. The wine is wild fermented, 20-30% in puncheons on lees for 16-18 months pre-bottling. The wine goes through 100% Malo with a little Sulphur added at bottling.

Where in the World is Il Corincino?

Il Corincino is in the Marche, central west coast of Italy.

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Where in the world does the magic happen?

Fattoria Coroncino, Staffolo, Province of Ancona, Italy

Le Marche
Italy