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Lacrima di Morro d'Alba

Il vino "Lacrima di Morro d'Alba , diventato a denominazione di origine controllata nel 1985, è conosciuto sin dai tempi remoti. Sembra già se talk in some writings dating back to ancient Rome .

Legend has it that in 1167 Frederick Barbarossa him where he could enjoy, laid siege to the city of Ancona , chose as his home in Morro Castle, which appears in an imperial act as ''Curtis''. The inhabitants were forced to surrender to the emperor the things good and delicious, including the famous grape juice di Morro d'Alba.
appears instead as''Castrum '' in another act of 1213, when she is forced to give in Senigallia Morro d'Alba al vicino comune di Jesi.
Nel 1326, Morro d'Alba viene assediata dalle milizie di Fabriano, e nel 1365 le mura devono essere ricostruite, forse a causa dei danni subiti da una incursione dei banditi della " Compagnia Maledicta" di Fra Moriale. Per brevi periodi Morro d'Alba passa sotto il controllo dei Malatesta di Rimini, desiderosi di ampliare i loro domini; subisce diverse incursioni degli Anconetani nel 1481 e negli anni successivi; nel 1517 viene saccheggiata la Francesco Maria della Rovere. Soltanto nel 1808, con il Regno Napoleonico, viene definitivamente sottratta al comune di Jesi; è poi nel 1860, con l'unità d'Italia , che Morro entra a far parte della provincia di Ancona.
Just this incident involved, in 1862, adding the word Alba to name the country, in order to avoid confusion with other places of the Kingdom.

The production area of \u200b\u200bthis wine lies in the Province of Ancona and includes the entire municipality of Morro d'Alba, Monte San Vito, San Marcello, Belvedere Ostrense, Ostra and Senigallia, excluding funds valley and hillsides of the Municipality of Senigallia facing the sea.
It is obtained from a local grape variety old the Lacrima , which was traditionally married elm and maple and was cultivated in the rich wooded hills that characterized the the production area.
Only in the early eighties some producers are convinced of the opportunity to introduce the product and promote it, they managed to give new luster to this vine.

Tear The name derives from the fact that the grape skin, when it comes to the point of aging, cracking, leaving drip, tears, the juice content. However, the Lacrima grape skin thickness significantly, which, during maceration, allows the transfer of anthocyanins, tannins and dyes, is enormous.
E 'a wine that goes with the traditional first courses delle Marche, with fish blue Pickled or marinated with the same wine with white meat. It should be drunk at 18 ^ C.
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