Castelli di Jesi Verdicchio Riserva
6 wineries and 6 wines. The "castles" of the name are the hill towns that for centuries gravitated around Jesi — the city where Frederick II was born in 1194 — in the basin of the river Esino. Twenty-two communes in the province of Ancona and two in Macerata share the zone, about 20 kilometres from the Adriatic, rising from 96 metres at Jesi to 630 at Cingoli, with the Apennines, some of them above 2,000 metres, sheltering it from the west. Read more ↓
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- DOCG
- Region
- Marche
- Grapes
- Verdicchio
- Styles
- White
- Vineyards
- 1 named
- Producers
- 6
Wineries making Castelli di Jesi Verdicchio Riserva
Umani Ronchi Verdicchio dei Castelli di Jesi · 20 winesMontepulciano d'Abruzzo Jorio DOC
Andrea FeliciVerdicchio dei Castelli di Jesi · 2 wines6 Tre Bicchieri, latest 2026 · Vigna Il Cantico della Figura – Verdicchio dei Castelli di Jesi Classico Riserva DOCG
Santa BarbaraVerdicchio dei Castelli di Jesi · 20 wines2 DWWA awards, latest 2026 · Pignocco Bianco Verdicchio dei Castelli di Jesi DOC
CasalfarnetoVerdicchio dei Castelli di Jesi · 6 winesLacrima di Morro d'Alba DOCBrunori19 winesLe GemmeCantina del Verdicchio – MontecarottoCastelli di Jesi Verdicchio Riserva wines
Named vineyards
About Castelli di Jesi Verdicchio Riserva
The hills belong to the sub-Apennine band that runs down to the sea, and their soils are rich in clay and calcium carbonate, not very permeable and prone to erosion, varying with the slope between finer clays and calcarenite. The climate is that of the high hills — more than 700 to 800 mm of rain and an average temperature below 14 °C — tempered by the sea and its breezes.
The Riserva is the top of the Verdicchio pyramid: at least 85 per cent Verdicchio, cropped at no more than ten tonnes a hectare, with no enrichment allowed, and aged at least 18 months from the first of December of the harvest year, six of them in bottle. The historic core may be labelled Classico. It was first recognised as a style of the Verdicchio dei Castelli di Jesi DOC in 1995 and became a DOCG in 2010.