There are truly many, too many, friends in the wine world who have left us in 2025. I would like to remember them all, but I will dwell on Aldo Brachetti Peretti, owner of Il Pollenza. A man of great personality and difficult character, but a dear friend to us.
After the disappearance in recent months of so many friends, Ampelio Bucci, AlessandroJacopo Boncompagni Ludovisi, Luigi Cataldi Madonna, Caesar Pillon, Giuliano Noè, Giuseppe Bonci, Hideyuki Miyakawa, Gaetano Zangara, Nicola Sarzi Amadè, and then Arnaldo Caprai, Cesare Speri, also came – on December 26 – that of Aldo Brachetti Peretti, completing a horrible sequence.
An entrepreneur in the oil field (he owned Ip) he had become passionate, he almost teetotal, about the world of wine. He had created a splendid winery, The Pollenza, near Tolentino, in the Marche region of Italy. He had availed himself of the cooperation first of Giacomo Tachis and later by Carlo Ferrini, which had caused him to produce excellent wines. The last of which, Il Tolentino, is a formidable Merlot.
He had a sometimes difficult character, precise ideas and little questionable, those who knew him knew well with what decision he operated. For me, for my wife Marina, however, he was like an uncle. Uncle Aldo.
He had taken a liking to us, gave us almost fatherly advice and asked for it, for advice, on many aspects of the production and marketing of his wines. We will miss him.
