Umani Ronchi Villa Bianchi Verdicchio 2022

Every year, Umani Ronchi adds more fans to their Northern Italian winery amongst the Nicholas Wines faithful. There’s a good reason for that too – they make flat-out delicious, everyday drinking wine, which stylistically pairs well with most kinds of cooking. These wines are ridiculously well-priced and consistently wow critics.

Eric Guido of Vinous previously went on a huge long rant about how much he loved Umani Ronchi, saying that although they manage more than 210 hectares of vines between Marche and Abruzzo, “they still manage to deliver one of the most balanced and quality-driven portfolios within the two regions.”

Their ‘Villa Bianchi’ Castello di Jesi Verdicchio comes from one of the most famous and historic Marche appellations. The Verdicchios here are zipped-up, electric white wines that are so good, that legend has it that the troops of the King of the Visigoths drank barrels of Verdicchio to maintain their strength before sacking Rome in the early 400s.

If there’s one problem with these wines, it’s that they don’t last long enough for my liking. I love wines that we can spread out to as many people as we can, especially when they offer this kind of incredible value. But you can forget about it with this vintage too.