San Lorenzo Bianco di Gino Integrale (Magnum)
Country: Italy
Region: Marche
Grapes: Verdicchio
Vintage: 2023
Fattoria San Lorenzo is a family producer dedicated to the production of organic and biodynamic wines in the farm that Natalino Crognaletti inherited from his father Gino, whom in his turn had inherited it from his father Enrico. Natalino now presides over 35 hectares in various communes throughout the Marche. Natalino has, near single-handedly, proved that Verdicchio – the Marche’s flagship white grape – can make complex, age-worthy wines.
Fermentation as with all Natalino’s wines is with indigenous yeasts, before ageing in concrete tanks for nine months on the lees with some batonnage to distribute the lees evenly. The wine is bottled without filtration or fining. Signature lees-enriched aromas of warm spiced bread, white flowers and dried apricot. The portion of skin contact lends the wine some extra heft and flavours of golden fruit and almost delicate peppery note of fine tannins.