The Ciù Ciù Collection

In 1917, husband and wife team Natalino and Anna Bartolomei established Ciù Ciù in the hills surrounding Offida, a tiny, medieval village on the east coast of Italy. Today the Ciù Ciù Tenimenti Bartolomei includes five wineries spread across multiple Italian regions. Ciù Ciù wines are steeped in tradition and a deep commitment to the unique territories from which they are born. The Ciù Ciù wines offered by Vino d’Italia are all certified organic and demonstrate the idea that a very good wine can also be a very responsibly produced wine.

Bacchus-Rosso Piceno DOP

From the noble vines of Montepulciano and Sangiovese grown with care on the hills of the Marche, this wine is obtained with a ruby red color with violet hues that change over time to orange. Harmoniously complex, wine-fruity, floral evolving to the ethereal. Dry taste, rightly tannic with a strong body. It expresses its best characteristics between the first and second year of life. In the best years and conditions the aging gives it greater balance and softness. To increase the quality level of the product, the best grapes were selected.

Municipallity of Acquaviva Picena and Offida, province of Ascoli Piceno
Montepulciano and Sangiovese
medium-textured tending to clayey
300 meters above sea level
spurred cordon
first ten days of October
traditional in red with daily punching down for a duration of 10 days
6 months in steel tanks
3 months in the bottle
Burgundy purplish color; slightly ethereal pleasant bouquet; harmonious, savory, rightly tannic flavor; Alcohol 13.5%

Evoè-Marche IGP Passerina

It is produced from pure Passerina grapes, a very ancient and autochthon vine from Marche. An elegant and well-balanced wine with a straw yellow color and light, golden shades. A pleasant fruity and white flower ’s scent, a good taste to the palate, with a wide range of perceptions and final aromatic tasting persistence.

The towns of Offida and Acquaviva Picena, in Ascoli Piceno province
Passerina
Medium texture
250-300 meters above sea level
spur pruned cordon
Strictly by hand, end of September
in white, at controlled temperature
It is ready to be drunk in the spring following the harvest
None

Gotico-Rosso Piceno Superiore DOP

The search for quality in the vineyard and in the cellar has always been and still is the main goal of our company and this wine testifies to it.  From the vineyards of Montepulciano and Sangiovese, more suitable and better exposed, located on the hilly belt sloping down from Ascoli Piceno towards the Adriatic sea, this wine of intense ruby red color, with just ripe purple reflections, originates from which maturation, optimal after the third year, it gives vivacity, orange reflections and velvety softness. Ample, fruity and floral, elegantly ethereal when ripe; savory and warm, with a notable body and a soft persistent taste.

Municipality of Acquaviva Picena and Offida, in Ascoli Piceno province
70% Montepulciano, 30% Sangiovese
Medium-textured tending to clayey
300 meters above sea level
Spurred cordon
From the second week of October
Traditional in red with cold racking
In oak barrels for about 12 months
6 months in bottle
Intense red color with a slightly garnet edge; bouquet of vanilla and wooden spices; Velvety, full-bodied flavor; alcohol content 14%

Merlettaie-Offida DOCG Pecorino

The lace makers of Offida weave threads with quick and precise gestures, the last witnesses of an ancient and precious art whose origin is lost in memory and over the years ... thus the origin of Pecorino, a noble Italic vine, austere and powerful, relegated for decades on barren and steep mountain slopes of the Piceno Apennines. Rediscovered today by the passion of a few winemakers, rare and precious, able, even over the years, to release intense personality evoking ethereal and persistent sensations. Personality and power enhanced by the fermentation in noble woods of this product, an example of historical memory and new heroic wisdom.

Municipality of Acquaviva Picena and Offida, in Ascoli Piceno province
100% Pecorino
Medium-textured tending to clayey
280 meters above sea level
Spurred cordon
Manual, first 10 days of September
The decanted must is placed to ferment in medium-sized oak barrels where it remains for a period of 6 months in contact with the fermentation lees
6 months in oak barrels
3 months in the bottle
Straw yellow color with good chromatic charge; Very intense and persistent bouquet of wild herbs and hawthorn flowers, with intriguing vanilla impact; Taste of good freshness and sapidity on the palate is soft and enveloping; Alcohol 13.5%

Montepulciano d’Abruzzo DOP

Intense ruby red color with violet reflections, rather fruity with good tannins. Balanced body of excellent drink. Aromas of red fruit.

Controguerra and Ancarano (Teramo)
100% Montepulciano
of medium texture
260 meters above sea level
Spurred cordon
First week of October
Traditional with skins
6 months in steel tanks
Bottle

Montepulciano d’Abruzzo DOP Riserva

Slightly garnet red wine, intense aroma, intense tertiary and red jam, persistent and aromatic in the mouth with perfectly balanced tannins and minerality.

Controguerra and Ancarano (Teramo)
100% Montepulciano
260 meters above sea level
Spurred cordon
Last 10 days of October
6 months in steel tanks

Nero d’Avola-Syrah DOP

The assembly of two important vines such as Nero D'Avola and Syrah, give us a wine of great elegance and refinement: the fruity and balanced taste of the first goes perfectly with the complexity and decisive aromas of the second.

Municipality of Noto (SR)
70% Nero D’Avola, 30% Syrah
Medium-textured, calcareous
65 meters above sea level
Sapling, Spurred cordon
mid-September planting
The selected grapes, pressed and de-stemmed, are left to macerate, in conjunction with the alcoholic fermentation, on stainless steel tanks for about a week. At the end of the fermentation the racking takes place, followed by the refinement of the wine in concrete tanks.
2 months in the bottle

Oppîdum-Marche IGT Rosso

A large part of the quality of this wine depends on the variety, weather and the soil. The natural ecosystem in which the vines are grown, above all the “terroir” (microclimate, soil and subsoil) gives the wine its character and quality. The wine’s sugar content, acidity, PH, colour, tannin and bouquet depend on these factors, then oenological techniques are applied to this wine.

Towns of Offida and Acquaviva Picena, in Ascoli Piceno province
100% Montepulciano
Medium-textured, quite clayey
300 meters above sea level
Spur pruned cordon
End of October
Fermentation with the skins for 20 days, then the malolactic fermentation
30% of the wine in wooden barrels (barriques), 70% of the wine in small wooden barrels of 10 HL for 12 months
6 months in the bottle
Color: red with purple shades
Scent: deep vanilla perfume
Flavor: smooth and full-bodied
Alcohol content 15%

Oris-Falerio DOP

Bianco Doc del Piceno whose varietal characteristics are evident and fully represent our territory. The production area of this wine is in the hilly area of the province of Ascoli Piceno up to an altitude of 700 meters above sea level. The native vines, Pecorino and Passerina, excellently combined with Trebbiano, ennoble and characterize this wine to be consumed young. Pale straw yellow color with green hues that highlight its liveliness and freshness. Sweet aromas of pome fruit and white flowers; to the taste it expresses aromatic notes of warmth and freshness with pseudo-sweet perceptions.

Towns of Offida and Acquaviva Picena, in Ascoli Piceno province
Trebbiano, Passerina, Pecorino
Medium-texture
250-300 meters above sea level
Spurred cordon
Manual, end of September
In white, at a controlled temperature
it is ready for consumption from the spring following the harvest
None
Straw yellow color with greenish reflections; Fragrant scent of fresh fruit: Soft and fruity flavor: Alcohol 13%