VALTER MATTONI

The Marche region is made up of one of the most beautiful and relaxing landscapes in all of Italy. Gentle hills and cultivated fields follow one another in a landscape that alternates the sea with the mountains, representing the best of the Italian countryside. A few kilometers from Ancona, the regional capital, is the small town of Morro d’Alba, one of the castles of Jesi built around the year 1000 AD. as a military fortress; here, in the Sant’Amico district, there is a young but already very renowned winery: Marotti Campi. Founded in 1999, the origins of the winery, however, allow it to go back to the mid-1800s, when the Marotti family bought the first land by building a villa right in the center of the company, at the time focused on sharecropping. Over the decades, we moved towards viticulture, and, in 1991 Giovanni Marotti Campi began an ambitious modernization process, culminating in 1999 with the first harvest by Marotti Campi. Today the winery is still run by Giovanni, with the help of his wife Francesca and his son Lorenzo. In the approximately 53 hectares of vineyards, the two symbolic vines of the territory, verdicchio and lacrima, are grown mainly, as well as a small percentage dedicated to montepulciano, petit verdot, and cabernet sauvignon; agricultural practices are carried out with the utmost respect for the surrounding nature, trying to minimize the environmental impact. The result of this philosophy gives life to about 220,000 bottles, divided into ten labels: among these stand out the Lacrima di Morro d'Alba DOC "Orgiolo", the Marche Rosso IGT "Donderé" and the very famous Verdicchio dei Castelli di Jesi, declined in classic version, superior and reserve, with the "Salmariano". Elegant and refined bottles, which every year enjoy the success of national critics, as evidenced by the prestigious awards assigned by Bibenda and Gambero Rosso: the future of Marotti Campi looks very bright and full of great satisfactions.