Michele Bernetti (Umani Ronchi) has been confirmed as the head of the Marche Institute for the Protection of Wines (IMT).
IMT is the leading consortium in the Marche region, which has about 500 members, 16 protected appellations and 89 percent of bottled wine in its area. Joining Michele Bernetti are vice presidents Antonio Centocanti (Cantine Belisario) and Mauro Quacquarini(Quacquarini).
Twenty-five additions to the new IMT Board of Directors, which changed its structure by more than a third of the appointments. Oenologist Alberto Mazzoni was confirmed as director of the consortium.
Michele Bernetti’s comment
“The renewed Board of Directors,” said Imt President Michele Bernetti. is a mirror of a changing denomination, with a mix of young – and growing – board members, small producers and prestigious newcomers. The same can be said for the entrepreneurial fabric in our territory, until recently highly concentrated on a few companies. The well-known recent vicissitudes may paradoxically prove decisive for the change of gear of a vocated area such as ours, which has a duty to make the value of its harvest fully perceived. We are facing – added Bernetti – to a future full of responsibility, in which the Consortium will have to focus on a renewed supply-demand relationship, managing potential in a way that is elastic and appropriate to an international trend that is increasingly oriented toward quality choices at the expense of volume. The new course of Imt and its enterprises will start from this awareness.”
IMT’s new board of directors
- Michele Bernetti (Umani Ronchi), director – chairman
- Antonio Centocanti (Cantine Belisario), director – vice president
- Mauro Quacquarini (Quacquarini), councilor – vice president
- Federico Barbini (Angelini Wines & Estates / Fazi Battaglia), director
- Silvano Brescianini (Barone Pizzini / Pievalta), councilor
- Luciano Bruzzechesse (Borgo Paglianetto), councilor
- Valerio Canestrari (Coroncino Farm), councilor
- Federico Castellucci (Federico Castellucci), councilor
- Andrea Ceci (Vignamato), councilor
- Matteo Cesari De Maria (VerSer), councilor
- Vincenzo Cesaroni (Piersanti Agricultural Society S.s.), director
- Denis Cingolani (Producers of Matelica 1932), adviser
- Tommaso Di Sante (Di Sante), councilman
- Gianluca Garofoli (Garofoli Winery), adviser
- Chiara Lucangeli (Villa Forano), councilor
- Roberto Lucarelli (Lucarelli), councilor
- Lorenzo Marotti Campi (Marotti Campi), councilor
- Giovanni Meschini (Colmone della Marca Farm), adviser
- Mattia Moroder (Moroder), councilor
- Ondine de la Feld (Tavignano Estate), adviser
- Gianfilippo Palpacelli (Vignedileo), councilor
- Roberto Rotatori (Santa Barbara), councilor
- Paolo Togni, (CasalFarneto), councilor
- Stefano Tonelli (Fattoria Villa Ligi), adviser
- Vico Vicari (Vicari), councilor
The numbers of the Marchigiano Tutela vini institute.
With about 500 member wineries for 16 designations of origin – including four DOCGs – the Marche Institute for the Protection of Wines (Imt) is unique in Italy. Today, the consortium accounts for 89 percent of bottled wine in its area of reference and the majority of Marche’s wine exports. Finally, with more than 7,500 hectares between the provinces of Ancona, Macerata, Pesaro-Urbino and Fermo it accounts for 45% of the entire regional vineyard area. Twelve appellations (DOC) protected by Imt: Bianchello del Metauro, Colli Maceratesi, Colli Pesaresi, Esino, I Terreni di San Severino, Lacrima di Morro d’Alba, Pergola, Rosso Conero, San Ginesio, Serrapetrona, Verdicchio dei Castelli di Jesi, Verdicchio di Matelica. There are four DOCGs: Conero Riserva, Vernaccia di Serrapetrona, Castelli di Jesi Verdicchio Riserva, Verdicchio di Matelica Riserva.
