Barbara, Italy
Santa Barbara
Santa Barbara gives the Marche winery visit a clear terroir frame: Verdicchio and Montepulciano from the Jesi hills, shaped by clay-limestone soils, Adriatic proximity, and a monastery setting in Barbara. The scale is substantial, with 45 hectares and 900,000 bottles a year, but the argument remains regional rather than generic: native grapes first, international varieties as breadth.
