Velenosi Vini sits at the southern edge of the Marche, twenty kilometres inland from the Adriatic in the city of Ascoli Piceno. Angela and Ercole Velenosi founded the cellar in 1984 and built it into one of the region's largest serious producers, working five estates across the Tronto valley plus a vineyard in Ancarano on the Abruzzo border. The reference wine is Roggio del Filare, a 70 percent Montepulciano and 30 percent Sangiovese Rosso Piceno Superiore DOC.
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Four wines from the Classica and Selezioni lines tasted at the Ascoli Piceno cellar, served with Ascolana olives, bread with the estate's olive oil and a board of local cured meats and cheeses. By reservation only.
Book this experienceSix wines tasted at the Ascoli Piceno cellar: four from the Classica and Selezioni lines plus two from the Top range, drawn from Roggio del Filare, Ludi, Verso Sera, Reve, Montagna and the Brut Metodo Classico. Served with Ascolana olives, bread with the estate's olive oil and local cured meats and cheeses. By reservation only.
Book this experienceFour wines from the Classica and Selezioni lines tasted at the Ascoli Piceno cellar, served with Ascolana olives, bread with the estate's olive oil and a board of local cured meats and cheeses. By reservation only.
Book this experienceAngela and Ercole Velenosi started bottling in 1984 from a single cellar in Ascoli Piceno, the same address that still serves as the company seat: Via dei Biancospini 11, in the historic city tucked between the Sibillini mountains and the sea. Doctor Paolo Garbini joined as a partner in 2005, and the operation took its present corporate shape as Velenosi Srl. Annual production now runs to roughly two and a half million bottles, distributed through eighty-five Italian agencies and exported to fifty-two countries.
The estate works five Marche properties, anchored at Ascoli Piceno and reaching out to Castorano, Monsampolo del Tronto and Castel di Lama in the Piceno hills, plus a northern outpost at San Marcello in the Castelli di Jesi. A separate vineyard at Ancarano, just over the Abruzzo border in Teramo province, supplies the Montepulciano d'Abruzzo line. Soils across the Tronto valley are sedimentary mixes of Pliocene and Miocene marls: clay-led, tempered by sand, silt and loose skeleton, with the Adriatic close enough to keep summers ventilated.
Velenosi's territory translates to a tight set of appellations: Rosso Piceno Superiore DOC and Offida DOCG for the reds, Offida DOCG Pecorino and Passerina for the whites, plus Lacrima di Morro d'Alba DOC from the San Marcello fruit. The flagship Roggio del Filare bottles a 70 percent Montepulciano and 30 percent Sangiovese blend from Rosso Piceno Superiore, aged in French oak and built to age. Ludi, an Offida DOCG Rosso of Montepulciano, Cabernet Sauvignon and Merlot, sits alongside it as the modern-cut counterpart.
The white range leans on Pecorino, the indigenous Marche grape that has carried the region's reputation for the past two decades. The Villa Angela Pecorino Offida DOCG and the certified-organic Bio Pecorino Offida DOCG, both single-varietal, set the house style: lemon, grapefruit and almond pulled tight by Adriatic-cooled acidity. A Brut Metodo Classico made from Chardonnay and Pinot Nero rounds out the portfolio, alongside Verso Sera from Lacrima di Morro d'Alba and a small range of Abruzzo whites and reds.
The cellar holds Equalitas certification for sustainable winemaking and IFS Food certification for production process, with the Bio Pecorino Offida vineyards farmed under EU organic rules. The Ascoli Piceno headquarters runs daily tastings by reservation: a Classica flight at twenty euros and a Top flight covering Roggio del Filare, Ludi and the Brut at thirty, both served with Ascolana olives, local cured meats and cheeses, and bread dressed in the estate's own oil.
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