Fattoria Nannì

Roberto Cantori at the lees

The lees for Origini stay in motion long after fermentation, stirred weekly as Roberto Cantori, winemaker at Fattoria Nannì in Montefano, keeps Verdicchio close to the hand. His public role here is founder as much as cellar worker: one address in Arsicci, Apiro, one organic estate, one grape frame returning again and again to Verdicchio dei Castelli di Jesi DOC. Fattoria Nannì began in 2016, young by Marche standards, but its discipline is not built on novelty. Cantori has made the estate legible through continuity, keeping the farm, cellar, vineyard and tasting room tied to Contrada Arsicci rather than spreading the identity across a broader brand story.

What it does make clear is the present structure of the work: the owner answers questions himself, guides visitors through the property, and decides bottling by vintage and sensory impression. That puts the method in a narrow register. Arsicci, Origini, Nena e Vincè and the Verdicchio line all point back to the same hills above Apiro, where the craft depends less on a decorative lineage than on repeated decisions at one small estate.

Verdicchio held past the first year

The cellar program is white-wine-led, with Verdicchio carrying the estate’s clearest signature. After fermentation, the wine is racked again and matured on its lees. For Arsicci, that contact runs about 3–6 months, with weekly stirring of the lees mass. Origini takes the longer road, with 18–24 months on lees before release. Cantori bottles Arsicci from February to April of the year after harvest; Origini is bottled in January of the second year after harvest, at least 18 months after the vintage.

Those timings matter because they give the wines their internal pace. The estate’s public cellar language centers on steel rather than oak, on preserving the organoleptic profile of the grapes rather than dressing them in cooperage. Organic farming frames the work outside the cellar, and the vineyard material is narrow by design: Verdicchio first, with a small amount of Ribona appearing in the wider portfolio. The tasting range is just as concentrated, usually 1–3 organic wines, with white wine and sweet wine as the stated styles.

The cellar above Apiro

The place itself sits as a working hillside farm in Contrada Arsicci above Apiro, surrounded by mountains, hills, valleys and vineyards. Tastings move between the vineyard, winery, cellar and a dedicated tasting room, so the visitor sees the program in sequence rather than only in glass. It is a small estate, and the scale changes the tone of the room. Conversation can stay at cellar volume. The bench-side equivalent here is the tank, the lees, the bottle waiting for its month.

Cantori offers a warm welcome and a panorama that stretches over the rural Marche landscape, and proximity to the work. He is not presented as a distant label name. He walks the property, explains the wines, and returns the conversation to Verdicchio, Arsicci and Origini.

Origini as an address

Fattoria Nannì calls the cellar the origin of Origini, and the phrase lands because the wine is not separated from the site that names it. The next movement here is not a new concept; it is the continued reading of the same vineyard and the same lees cycle through each vintage of Origini.