Sartarelli
Marche, ItalySartarelli is a third-generation Verdicchio specialist in Poggio San Marcello, on the left bank of the Esino river in the Castelli di Jesi heartland of the Marche. The estate works 55 hectares of vineyard at around 350 metres above sea level and bottles only one grape: Verdicchio.
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Marche
- Est. 1972
- 1 wine
- Tastings
- Tours
- Accommodation
- Walk-ins welcome
Est. 1972 
1 wine 
Tastings
Tours
Accommodation
Walk-ins welcome 
About Sartarelli
Sartarelli sits at 350 metres above sea level in Poggio San Marcello, a village in the Province of Ancona on the left bank of the Esino river. The estate spans 55 hectares of vineyard and 6 hectares of olive groves, and its winery and offices are built around a country house dated 1882 that anchors the property. The vineyards lie inside the historic Verdicchio dei Castelli di Jesi Classico zone, on the gentle hill slopes that include the cru-named districts of Coste del Molino, Tralivio and Balciana.
The estate was founded in 1972 by Ferruccio Sartarelli, a baker turned wine producer who set out to lift Verdicchio out of its post-war reputation as a mass-market table wine. His daughter Donatella Sartarelli and her husband Patrizio Chiacchiarini took over the company, and today their children Caterina and Tommaso run export markets and the cellar respectively, keeping decision making inside the family.
Sartarelli is one of the very few Italian wineries that bottles a single varietal and only that varietal: every wine in the range is 100% Verdicchio. The portfolio runs from Sartarelli Brut, a Verdicchio sparkling wine, through the entry Sartarelli Classico, the old-vine Tralivio (Verdicchio dei Castelli di Jesi DOC Classico Superiore), the two Riserva DOCG bottlings Milletta and Balciana, and a late-harvest Sartarelli Passito.
The reference wine is Balciana, a Castelli di Jesi Verdicchio Riserva DOCG Classico from a single vineyard, made in roughly 15,000 bottles a year and not produced at all in unfavourable vintages such as 1996, 2002 and 2005. The 1997 Balciana was named Best Italian White and Best White Wine in the World at the 1999 International Wine Challenge in London, and that result remains the public marker of what the estate set out to do.
Alongside the cellar Sartarelli built the In Verdicchio Veritas Museum, a modern cube of wood, stone, steel and cork sited next to the 1882 country house. The museum gathers documents, images and tasting rooms dedicated to the history of Verdicchio dei Castelli di Jesi, and underlines the estate's single-grape focus on a variety the family treats as its only subject.
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Common questions
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Sartarelli is in Poggio San Marcello, a hill village in the Province of Ancona, in the Marche region of central Italy. The estate sits at around 350 metres above sea level on the left bank of the Esino river, inside the Verdicchio dei Castelli di Jesi Classico zone. The address is Via Coste del Molino, 24, 60030 Poggio San Marcello (AN).
