Kurni

Kurni was the first wine of Oasi degli Angeli, from 1997, when there were just over 3,000 bottles of it. Today there are just under 6,000, by We-Wealth's count, from vines that give one or two bunches each.

Fermentation runs on native yeasts, with no added sulphur or enzymes, through a long maceration in steel of about 40 days. Then comes the oak: two sets of new barriques. We-Wealth describes nine months in new French barriques followed by nine more in a second set of new ones, and a Ukrainian retailer gives the same nine and nine. A British merchant speaks instead of about twelve months, then a further twelve to eighteen.

It is bottled unfined and unfiltered, so it may throw a deposit and keep some natural carbon dioxide. The estate advises decanting it with care.

In the Marche, 2021 began with April frosts that the region largely escaped because budburst came late, by Assoenologi's account. Confagricoltura reported healthy grapes that year, with drought a problem in places, and Il Resto del Carlino reported a Marche harvest down 13 per cent.

Twice into new oak, and nothing taken out on the way to the bottle.