Le Marche region produces a large variety of wines including 13 that carry the D.O.C. label. Many of these wines are a well-kept secret and in the past have been little known outside of Italy. However, the region's producers have started attracting attention overseas and full bodied Rosso Conero and Rosso Piceno wines are now fetching increasingly higher prices.

But the best known of Le Marche's wines, Verdicchio dei Castelli di Jesi is becoming a favourite of wine stockists and restaurants throughout Europe and North America. The Verdicchio vineyards are around the lovely medieval town of Jesi found just inland from Ancona, and also cover the hillsides around the Cantinone.

Of particular interest, and unique to a small red-wine producing area is the Lacrima di Morro D'Alba.