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San Marzano DOP
Grown on volcanic soil near Vesuvius. Sweet, low-acid, and irreplaceable.
The Story
Born of fire,
tempered by time
Chef Matteo Ricci left Naples with a single conviction: that greatness lives in restraint. After years in the wood-fired rooms of Campania, he found his second home among the vines of Sonoma County — a place where soil speaks as clearly as flour.
Vespera is not a restaurant of abundance. It is a room of twenty seats, one oven, and a kitchen that refuses compromise. We mill our dough over seventy-two hours. We source San Marzano DOP from the slopes of Vesuvius. We finish every pie by hand, under flame that never sleeps.
This is hospitality as reverence — for ingredient, for guest, for the quiet ritual of gathering around fire.
— Chef Matteo Ricci, Founder
