My love of Verdicchio is well known. I think it must be one of the great grapes of Italy, possibly the world. You can do anything with Verdicchio: dry wine, sweet wine, still wine, sparkling wine, fresh wine, wine to age. It is an amazing grape and I wanted to find the next great Verdicchio producer so I asked a friend who is a Verdicchio producer whose wines I already loved to tell me who he thought that person was. He told me he knew just the person, Riccardo Baldi. Riccardo is less than 30 years old and already recognized internationally as the rising star of Verdicchio. He farms his small vineyards organically and produces some of the best Verdicchio wines you will find. Production is very small, but you will find the wines worth waiting for each year. The Verdicchio wines are fresh and pure with lots of minerality, acid, and herbs that pair very well with the citrus and stone fruit aromas and flavors. Everything here is done by hand.
