Malacari
Malacari
AboutMalacari
Malacari’s roots in Offagna reach back to family landholdings recorded in the 1500s and the construction of the Domestica Villa in 1668. Alessandro Starrabba Malacari leads the estate, having restored the cellar and renewed its focus on vineyards in 1997.
About 15 hectares are split between Montepulciano in the Conero zone and Verdicchio around Montecarotto. The estate grows its own grapes and handles winemaking and bottling in-house. Organic farming resumed in 2010, with cover crops among the practices used to care for the soil.
Malacari 2010 Grigiano Conero Riserva DOCG
Italian Red
Montepulciano forms the entire wine. The dry, still red comes from a three-hectare vineyard yielding twenty-five quintals per hectare. Fermentation uses no selected yeast, and the wine is unfiltered. Dark fruit includes prune, raisin, damson and blackberry, with spice and vanilla. Twenty days on skins include délestage; malolactic fermentation takes place in tonneaux, and the wine returns to tonneaux after racking. Alcohol is fourteen percent.