Aurora
The Agrobiological Company Aurora was founded in the late 1970s from the idea of a future linked to the land and respect for nature, developed by a group of young friends: a coherent choice of life and work that led to the birth of one of the very first companies dedicated to organic and biodynamic practices, long before any trendy aspirations. The same members of this agricultural reality based in Offida founded in the early 1980s the Marche Association of Organic Farmers, whose contribution would be substantial for the enactment of the first law on organic agriculture in the Marche region, followed the next year by the European directive. The current new generation, which has confidently followed this path, has become the promoter of a new associative reality evocatively named Terroir Marche.
Aurora now extends over a total area of 32 hectares, of various compositions: 10 hectares of vineyard, 5 of arable land, 2 of olive grove, and 1 hectare of orchard, while the remaining part is occupied by the forest and the characteristic calanchi, that is, the sort of scaling of the soil due to the erosion of the clayey hillsides caused by heavy rains, so typical of the Piceno territory. The soils are indeed composed of a medium-textured clay matrix, with significant deposits of limestone rock and sandy veins, mostly facing southwest: spread over modest altitudes that touch 150 meters above sea level and slope down towards the southern Tronto valley and the Abruzzo border, they are fully influenced by the Adriatic. It is the area where the two emblematic black grape varieties, Sangiovese and Montepulciano, meet, along with a certain presence of Cabernet Sauvignon and the Morettone, a local synonym for Ciliegiolo. The white berries are equally iconic: Trebbiano and especially Passerina and Pecorino.
In the Aurora winery, spontaneous fermentations are carried out using only indigenous yeasts, usually in steel tanks. The aging process makes use of stainless steel containers,
The Agrobiological Company Aurora was founded in the late 1970s from the idea of a future linked to the land and respect for nature, developed by a group of young friends: a coherent choice of life and work that led to the birth of one of the very first companies dedicated to organic and biodynamic practices, long before any trendy aspirations. The same members of this agricultural reality based in Offida founded in the early 1980s the Marche Association of Organic Farmers, whose contribution would be substantial for the enactment of the first law on organic agriculture in the Marche region, followed the next year by the European directive. The current new generation, which has confidently followed this path, has become the promoter of a new associative reality evocatively named Terroir Marche.
Aurora now extends over a total area of 32 hectares, of various compositions: 10 hectares of vineyard, 5 of arable land, 2 of olive grove, and 1 hectare of orchard, while the remaining part is occupied by the forest and the characteristic calanchi, that is, the sort of scaling of the soil due to the erosion of the clayey hillsides caused by heavy rains, so typical of the Piceno territory. The soils are indeed composed of a medium-textured clay matrix, with significant deposits of limestone rock and sandy veins, mostly facing southwest: spread over modest altitudes that touch 150 meters above sea level and slope down towards the southern Tronto valley and the Abruzzo border, they are fully influenced by the Adriatic. It is the area where the two emblematic black grape varieties, Sangiovese and Montepulciano, meet, along with a certain presence of Cabernet Sauvignon and the Morettone, a local synonym for Ciliegiolo. The white berries are equally iconic: Trebbiano and especially Passerina and Pecorino.
In the Aurora winery, spontaneous fermentations are carried out using only indigenous yeasts, usually in steel tanks. The aging process makes use of stainless steel containers,
