Powerhouse Montepulciano. Big, baller, bodacious with dark fruit and payers of sappy oak. Do we sound like a wine writer yet? This is their kind of wine from our kind of farming- No-till, organic. And a solar operated cantina? Yes please!

Grapes: Montepulciano

Farming: Certified organic, no-till, dry-farmed

Production: Indigenous yeasts, spontaneous fermentation, 20 days maceration, aged 30+ months in barrels

Winemaker: Marco Gozzi

Farmer: Luca Mercadante

Region: Le Marche, Italy

Notes: Riserva, DOCG, Tre Bicchieri, old vines, solar-powered