Macerata

on Italian Wine Podcast.

Today, we travel to Le Marche, to Civita Nova Marche in the province of Macerata to meet my guest, Lucrezia Bencivenga, who is the commercial director of the Cantine Fonte Zoppa Winery.

Buongiorno, Lucrezia.

Many thanks for being my guest today.

Last year we finished in December because we have many varieties and we harvest Vernazza Nera di Serra Petrona in December.

Oh my goodness, that's an amazingly long period, a fascinating range of wines.

Firstly, Lucrezia, our listeners are located all over the world and many may not have been to Le Marche or certainly to the province of Macerata.

I love Le Marche.

She was a fresh, unspoilt child, bubbling with gaiety and the joy of life, and her dainty little head was full of the romance of sweet 19.

Such then was the singularly contrasted couple, Beauty and the Beast they were dubbed by many, who stood together at the altar at Macerata on Good Friday of the year 1772.

The bridegroom looking hideous in his wedding suit of crimson silk, in flaming contrast to the virginal white of his pretty victim.

It needed no such day of ill omen as a Friday to inaugurate a union which could not have been otherwise than disastrous.