2004 Verdicchio dei Castelli di Jesi Riserva Classico Villa Bucci
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Bucci’s Verdicchio dei Castelli di Jesi Villa Bucci Riserva is one of Italy’s top white wines, and also ages splendidly. It’s also a bottling of significant historic importance, as it was the first to reveal the huge potential of the Verdicchio grape and its wines to Italy and the world.
Ampelio Bucci worked for more than 20 years in Milan’s highly competitive and glitzy fashion industry as a consultant in design direction and marketing. Until two years ago, he also taught this subject at the Domus Academy in Milan and at one of the city’s universities, the Libera Università di Lingue e Comunicazione (IULM). As if all that wasn’t enough for his resumé, Bucci also happens to make two of Italy’s best white wines, including the Verdicchio dei Castelli di Jesi Villa Bucci Riserva.
I tasted the following wines with Ampelio Bucci from magnum (except for the 1994, 2007 and 2010 Riservas), all sourced from his cellar in late September of 2017 at the estate.
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Marche's most famous producer and one of the best in the entire country, Ampelio Bucci's main claim to fame is perhaps the longest-lived white wines of Italy after those of Terlano in Alto Adige. The verdicchio grapes here are organically grown and sourced from five different vineyards located between 700 and 1400 feet above sea level, ranging in age from 15 to 45 years old. Since these whites are so stellar, most consumers overlook the very fine reds made here, which are delicate, perfumed and packed with flavor. It's not a stretch to say that, in the Marche at least, Villa Bucci's red wines are pinot noirs to everyone else's cabernets.
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Bucci is a reference point producer for Verdicchio.