Fattoria Nannì Verdicchio dei Castelli di Jesi Classico Superiore Cantore John Grange 2021

The name of this wine is a tribute to the collaboration with John, a Norwegian importer, with whom I have been working since 2017. We have the fictional name made of my surname (Cantori = Cantore, in my hometown Montefano many call me that) and his first name (John, John Sonnichsen, sommelier in the past at Restaurant Noma): together, they echo John Lennon and his song Norwegian wood. Despite past disappointments in love, which more or less all of us have experienced, the goodness or otherwise of wood (for me a metaphor for character), even in that story wine remains at the center and perhaps gives the protagonists the most convivial moments. (Roberto Cantori) ...