The farm was established in 1970 in Contrada Ciafone (Offida area) and is under now the direction of the Bartolomei brothers, Massimiliano and Walter. Made with grapes grown on the calcareous and clayey soil the Rosso Picenos of Ciù Ciù are typically dense and meaty with a strong scent and full-bodied structure. We begin with the vermilion rose-perfumed Bacchus with its delightful nose of strawberry, 276orello cherry and liquorice root. The wine has an uncomplicated juiciness that begs for a second and third glass. It can even be merrily chilled. The Gotico is of sterner disposition; like its little brother it is an amalgam of Montepulciano and Sangiovese but with the added poke of new oak. Still the flavours of terroir come through abundantly; behind the sweet gush of ripe plum fruit there’s a solid mulch of earth and minerals.