Sartarelli was one of the estates featured in a Decanter magazine article entitled 'Italy's Rising Stars' in which great praise was heaped upon this fabulous Marches winery. You can tell where an estate's heart lies when you realise that it only grows and makes wine from a single grape variety. There is no equivalent in Italy to Sartarelli where the estates motto might as well be Verdicchio or Bust.
(Decanter magazine May 2013).

The sparkling wine is a new venture by the family and was described by the authors of the Decanter article as not unlike a good Prosecco in its charming upfront fruit and floral aromas and flavours. Crisp, dry and always elegant.

This sparkling wine entirely made from strictly selected Verdicchio grapes is produced by using the long Charmat method (5-6 months of refinement). Thanks to a prolonged period of refinement on the lees at the end of the fermentation process, its organoleptic characteristics are particularly noteworthy.

It is of a brilliant straw yellow colour and has a bouquet of apple, fruit, lemon verbena, almond aromas and hints of yeasts. It has a fresh but not intrusive acidity, citrus fruit flavours and a fine, persistent perlage.

"Masses of fresh apples, chamomile and mint waft up from the Brut VS. It sizzles across the palate with saline- and lime-tinged acidity that gives way to a pleasant inner sweetness toward the close. Tropical florals and a salty flourish linger through the finale, as a hint of Granny Smith apple slowly fades. By law, the vintage can not be printed on the label, but this bottling hails from 2021. Drink to 2025."
90 points.
(Eric Guido. Vinous, July 2022)