Villa Ligi Pergola Aleatico Vernaculum 2023 GROWER Christian will lead us through

Christian will lead us through a comparative tasting of two wines from each area

and vanilla aromatics with focused citrus and pear on a creamy

wild raspberries

The name does double duty: pie franco means ungrafted

and pronounced minerality

Villa Ligi Pergola Aleatico Vernaculum 2023 GROWER Christian will lead us throughAleatico is a grape most people know as a sweet wine, if they know it at all. In Pergola, in the hills of the Marche, they've been growing a local clone of it since the 13th century and making it dry, which is exactly what Villa Ligi does here. Fermented in stainless steel and aged just three months in glazed cement, Vernaculum is bright, aromatic and unfussy: floral and fruity in the way that Aleatico can't help being, but firmly dry and refreshing.