Sergio Marani Marche Trebbiano 2025

Sergio’s great-grandfather set up shop in Matelica in the late 1920s, growing grapes and other crops, and tending the oxen which formed the labor force for central Italy’s burgeoning railroad system. The family acquired their present-day property in the late 1960s, encompassing the house, the 300-year-old cellar, and 10 hectares of rolling hillsides upon which they planted the indigenous Verdicchio. Most of those vines are still producing fruit today, fruit which is vinified and aged in the very same barrels—large 15-hectoliter casks made from local Apennine wood—with which the Maranis outfitted their cellar at the winery’s inception. Few producers anywhere are fortunate enough to claim such a through-line, and this constancy manifests clearly in the self-assured spirit of Marani’s wines.