Stelo Italian Wine

It been recognized wine D.O.C. July 21, 1967. It is produced in an area of the Umbria-Marche near the border between the provinces of Ancona and Macerata, with its epicenter in the Town of Matelica (MC). The production area is located in the heart of the Upper Valley Esina, insisting in the Municipalities of Camerino, Castelraimondo, Cerreto d’Esi, Esanatoglia, Fabriano, and Gagliole Matelica. The provision (very special and unique in the Marche region) North and South of this valley, the syncline Camerino, prevents the arrival of the mitigating influences creating a marine continental-Mediterranean climate characterized by an increase in temperature from night to day and from summer to winter . The effect of this climate gives rise to lots of grape extracts, aromas, sugars and polyphenols, which translates into a wine with a high body that gives it a special attitude to aging. The area of cultivation has a surface area of about 270 hectares distributed in the hills at altitudes ranging between 400 and 650 m above sea level, which produces an average of 3,200 tons of grapes, roughly corresponding to 25,000 hectoliters of wine. The Consortium for the Protection of Verdicchio Matelica meet only ten Cellars bottling. Viticulture is an ancient tradition in this region: evidence palaeobotanical (seeds of life found in the tomb of Villa Clara in 1998) dating piceno indicate a flourishing development of viticulture certainly since the eighth century BC.