Col di Corte Verdicchio dei Castelli di Jesi Classico Anno Uno 2024 CS20230718 and drinking beautifully right now

and drinking beautifully right now

it does not taste like a Champagne copy: it is broader in the shoulders

with alluring aromas of summer fruit sorbet and Fleurie's telltale minerality

Mountain herbs

Col di Corte Verdicchio dei Castelli di Jesi Classico Anno Uno 2024 CS20230718 and drinking beautifully right nowAnno Uno means "Year One," and the name is literal: this is made from the very first grapes Col di Corte picks each harvest, off their warmest, earliest ripening slope. Think of it as the opening act of the vintage the estate's fresh, unfussed Verdicchio, farmed biodynamically in the Classico heartland of the Marche. It's fermented on wild yeast in steel with no oak, so nothing gets in the way of the grape's bright fruit and stony cut. Verdicchio's