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Azienda Vitivinicola Vicari Nazzareno e Vico
Vicari's everyday Lacrima from Morro d'Alba: violets and woodland berries, soft tannin and fresh acidity, aged in steel only. The 2024 is £14.90 a bottle, by the case of six, at the one shop on this page.
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Lacrima is a red grape with a perfume, and Vicari keeps this wine in steel to bring that perfume out. The 2024 sheet lists a crop picked by hand only, from 3,600 vines to the hectare.
Violets first, then woodland berries: the scent Lacrima is grown for, and the one the Vicari family names on its 2024 sheet. Black pepper and liquorice sit behind the fruit, the notes drinkers pick out most after the flowers. Nothing comes from oak, because the wine stays in steel from start to finish.
Violet
Blackberry
Blueberry
Cherry
Forest berries
Black pepper
LiquoriceSoft, persistent and fresh is the order on the family's sheet. It is the order in the mouth too: gentle tannin, then cherry and blackberry, then a lift of acidity. The 2024 carries 14% alcohol, yet it drinks fresh; its acidity sits a full gram per litre above the DOC's minimum. The vines grow on mostly clay soil at 180 metres, facing south-south-east. The wine has the good structure the DOC's rules set down for the type.
Dry and persistent, with the woodland fruit outlasting the tannin. The family credits its quality partly to low yields and controlled thinning. The crop here is 80 to 90 quintals a hectare, against the 130 the DOC allows.
Dasempre is Vicari's everyday Lacrima, from a grape the family has always grown and once used to flavour its other reds. Gambero Rosso put the 2022 among its eight best Lacrima di Morro d'Alba in April 2024. Drink the 2024 from 2025 to 2027 with porchetta or a meat ragù; drinkers pick out its flowers before anything else.
One shop on this page sells the 2024, by the case of six at £14.90 a bottle. So there is no price to compare here.
Its strongest cards are food, beginner and everyday. A soft, perfumed red at under £15 for roasts, ragù and pizza, and an easy first taste of Lacrima.
A soft-tannin, fresh red with a flower-and-berry scent: it sits with porchetta, rabbit, a meat ragù, game birds and a tomato pizza alike. Only chilli heat fights it.
Easy to like: violets, berries, soft tannin and no oak. A good first taste of an Italian red that smells of flowers, and a name worth knowing beyond Chianti.
Under £15, soft, perfumed and happy with pasta, pizza or a roast chicken. A weeknight red, bought by the case of six at the one shop on this page.
At £14.90 a bottle, by the case of six, this is a hand-picked DOC red from a rare grape, with awards on recent vintages. Fair for what is in the glass, not a supermarket price.
A village red from a family cellar at under £15: a Sunday roast or a dinner with friends, rather than a celebration bottle. The rare grape gives it a story to tell at the table.
Aged in steel and on sale from the December after harvest, this is a wine for the next two to three years. It is not a cellar wine: the 2024 is for drinking by 2027.
Scoring is rule-based and deterministic. The model and weightings are documented in our Wine Fit Score methodology.
A compact view of what the Lacrima di Morro/Lacrima di Morro d'Alba denomination actually requires, and how this bottle sits inside it. Pulled from the official Italian disciplinare.
The 2024 is the only vintage on sale here. DOC rules let this type go on sale from 15 December of its harvest year. The 2024 harvest in the Marche has no settled verdict yet, so we give none.
The 2024 is the vintage on sale here, at 14% alcohol with a total acidity of 5.5 grams a litre on the producer's sheet. We would drink it from 2025 to 2027, so now is the time.
The 2024 is the vintage on sale here, at 14% alcohol with a total acidity of 5.5 grams a litre on the producer's sheet. We would drink it from 2025 to 2027, so now is the time.
Drink-now / hold guidance reflects general style cues for this wine, not a forecast for a specific bottle. Where vintage-level editorial notes exist, they appear above.
Vicari is based at Via Pozzo Buono in Morro d'Alba, the village that gives the DOC its name. Nazzareno Vicari bottled his first 200 bottles of Verdicchio and Lacrima in 1990. His son Vico now runs the cellar and sits on the committee that looks after the DOC.
Italian wine law sorts bottles into a pyramid. DOCG sits at the top: tightly drawn boundaries, prescribed grapes, mandatory ageing, government tasting before release. DOC is the same idea with looser thresholds. IGT (Indicazione Geografica Tipica) is broader still, requiring only that 85% of the grapes come from the named territory.
Lacrima di Morro/Lacrima di Morro d'Alba is in the DOC tier. That is not a quality verdict, it is a description of how much freedom the producer has at vinification and ageing.
Lacrima di Morro/Lacrima di Morro d'Alba falls within Marche, covering Ancona.
Made at Azienda Vitivinicola Vicari Nazzareno e Vico, Morro d'Alba.
Of the £14.90 the page prints, about £5.70 is tax. That is £3.22 of UK duty on a 75 cl bottle at 14% alcohol, plus £2.48 of VAT.
Lacrima grows almost nowhere outside six villages and towns near Ancona. In 2024 the DOC's 28 producers made about 950,000 bottles from 256 hectares of vines. There is no mass-market volume to spread costs across.
The 2024 sheet lists picking by hand only and a crop of 80 to 90 quintals a hectare, against the 130 the DOC allows. The family credits its quality partly to low yields and controlled thinning; both mean fewer bottles from the same vines.
The wine ages in steel and never sees a barrel. The DOC lets this type go on sale from 15 December of the harvest year. No barrels to buy and no years of stock to hold keep the price under £15.
Lacrima buds early, so a late cold snap in spring is a risk. Its thick skins can split at the end of ripening and weep juice, the 'tear' its name is said to come from. Grapes lost in the vineyard are paid for in the bottle.
Vicari itself puts this wine with game, grilled red meat, pasta with rich sauces and rabbit cooked porchetta-style. Its soft tannin and fresh acidity carry it from a herb-scented roast to a tomato pizza.
Vicari itself puts this Lacrima with rabbit cooked porchetta-style and with particularly aromatic dishes. The violet and pepper scent of the wine meets the herb crust of a porchetta head on. Its soft tannin does not fight the lean rabbit meat.
Try with: Porchetta · Coniglio alla ligure · Roast pork · Roast chicken
A fresh acidity, a gram above the DOC's minimum on the 2024 sheet, cuts through the fat of a slow-cooked ragù. The soft tannin leaves the meat tasting of meat. Vicari names pasta with rich, full-bodied sauces among the wine's best matches.
Try with: Ragu alla bolognese · Lasagna · Agnello Ragu Lucano · More pairings →
Grilled red meat is on the producer's own list. The char of a steak softens the wine's gentle tannin, and the cherry and blackberry fruit stays bright beside the meat. It suits beef served plain rather than under a heavy sauce.
Try with: Fiorentina steak · Sirloin steak · Lamb chops · Sunday Roast Beef
Game is the first thing Vicari names for this wine. Pheasant, duck and a venison stew have enough flavour to match a perfumed, full-flavoured red. The soft tannin suits meat that is lean rather than fatty.
Try with: Roast Pheasant · Venison Stew · Roast Duck · More pairings →
The wine's fresh acidity matches the acidity of a tomato base, and its fruit sits where a heavier, oaked red would clash. Young Lacrima is rose and red fruit with soft tannin, which is just what a Margherita wants.
Try with: Pizza Margherita · Pizza Marinara · Pizza Romana · More pairings →
Chilli heat makes the 14% alcohol burn and flattens the violet scent that is the whole point of this wine. Keep it away from a jalfrezi, crispy chilli beef, a green curry or a pizza Diavola; a mild dish lets the perfume through.
Skip with: Chicken jalfrezi · Crispy chilli beef · Green curry · Pizza Diavola · Pairing guide →
A steel-aged Lacrima made for early drinking: we would open the 2024 from 2025 to 2027. Vico Vicari argues that Lacrima can age: the DOC's producers showed vintages from 2016 to 2020 at Vinitaly in April 2025 to prove it. This steel-aged Dasempre is still one to drink young.
Best in the years above; holds without falling over either side.
Aim for the cooler end on a warm day; warmer end opens up more aromatics.
Aged in steel and on sale from the December after harvest, this is a wine for the next two to three years. It is not a cellar wine: the 2024 is for drinking by 2027.
£14.90 for a 75cl bottle of the 2024, at EuroWines, is the best price we track, and we have no signal of further discounting.
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Confidence · HighDrawn from what drinkers consistently report on Vivino, summarised in our own words. A crowd read across many tasters, not a single critic. Drinkers score it 4 out of 5 from 2,952 ratings on Vivino.
Confidence · MediumFrom the official Italian disciplinare for this denomination, cross-checked against the Ministry of Agriculture register.
Confidence · HighOur reading of the price, drawn from the disciplinare, public UK duty rates, and typical landed-cost benchmarks. Not a quote from the producer or a retailer.
Confidence · MediumStyle guidance for this kind of wine at this price point. Treat it as advice, not a forecast for the bottle in your hand.
Confidence · MediumViolets and woodland berries on the nose, then a soft, fresh and persistent mouthful. That is the family's own description of its Lacrima, and it is what the glass gives. Drinkers also pick out black pepper and liquorice behind the fruit. The wine ages in steel only, so no oak flavour gets in the way of the perfume.
Lacrima, a red grape grown almost only around Morro d'Alba near Ancona. The DOC rules ask for at least 85% Lacrima; Vicari's Dasempre is 100% Lacrima on its 2024 sheet. The grape's name is said to come from its berries. Their thick skins can split at the end of ripening and weep juice like tears.
One shop on this page sells the 2024, by the case of six, at £14.90 a bottle. So there is no price to compare here. Of that £14.90, about £5.70 is UK duty and VAT.
Game, grilled red meat and pasta with rich, full-bodied sauces, in the producer's own words, plus rabbit cooked porchetta-style and other particularly aromatic dishes. Its 2024 sheet adds roast red meat, oven-cooked white meat and pasta courses. The soft tannin and fresh acidity also carry it through a Sunday roast or a plain tomato pizza.
Drink it now: the 2024 is at its best from 2025 to 2027. It is aged in steel, not oak, and the DOC lets this type go on sale from 15 December of its harvest year. Lacrima has mostly been seen as a wine to drink young. The Superiore type, which Vicari sells as Lacrima del Pozzo Buono, is the one the DOC rules credit with good longevity.
It means 'of the good well'. The Vicari family were known in Morro d'Alba as 'those of the good well'. The name comes from a large well in their lane, which supplied the whole village with drinking water. The well still exists, the winery's address is Via Pozzo Buono, and the stylised well on the label is the family's logo.
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