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%

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%