Meet and Taste Wine with an Italian Winemaker Maurizio Marchetti

Small Vineyards imports wine from family owned producers. Winemaker Maurizio Marchetti will be pouring his Verdicchio and we will be sampling a mix of other red and white Small Vineyards wines including the following:

Giocata Pinot Grigio $14
Marchetti Verdichio $14
La Quercia Montepulicano $14
Palma Salice Salentino $14
Antionio Sanguineti Nessun Dorma $20

$5 per person/refunded with purchase

Maurizio Marchetti enjoys a fairly fantastic, charmed life. He lives near the Adriatic coast of Italy in a region that sees nearly 3000 hours (200 days) of sun each year. Also, his wife is a cardiologist (so she brings home the pancetta, as we like to say), leaving Maurizio free to pursue his two art forms: painting and making wine. (You may notice looking at his Verdicchio bottle that Botticelli is his favorite influence.) Because he needn’t rely on wine to earn an income, Marchetti can afford to be as picky with his grapes as he wants. Maurizio is so selective, in fact, that he sometimes produces as little as a half-bottle of wine per plant! To that end, he uses a special pneumatic press for a single, extremely light press, called a “flower press”. Or, as Maurizio says with a nudge and a wink, “Butterflies crush my grapes as they fly by with their wings.”