The estate's namesake cru: 100% Verdicchio aged nearly twelve years on its lees before bottling is even considered. This 2009, now seventeen years after harvest, has only just become available — and only in a handful of bottles.
Deep gold with golden highlights — a colour that immediately gives away how much time this wine has been given. The nose is rich and complex: dried fruit, honey and roasted nuts, with a mineral, almost saline undertone and a touch of beeswax. On the palate the wine is dense and full-bodied, with a lively acidity that still feels surprisingly fresh after all these years. The finish is long, lightly bitter and recalls almond and toasted bread. A wine for the occasion itself: serve at room temperature with aged cheese, foie gras or a rich fish dish, or simply on its own, as the close of dinner.
Fattoria San Lorenzo sits in the rolling hills of Montecarotto, in the heart of the Marche region. Since 1995, owner and winemaker Natalino Crognaletti has farmed the estate entirely biodynamically, without added yeasts or interventions that would mask the character of the grape. Across some thirty hectares grow the grapes for roughly eighty thousand bottles a year — wines given the time to become themselves.
Il San Lorenzo is the wine that lends the estate its name — its calling card, made from 100% Verdicchio and bottled only in good years. The grapes are fermented with wild yeasts, in concrete, without temperature control and with minimal intervention.
What follows is an ageing process unlike any other wine from the estate: over ten years on the fine lees, before another year in bottle. Such a long, patient maturation makes every vintage a rarity — this 2009 especially so.
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