Sixtus, a superior Rosso Piceno red wine, made from carefully selected Montepulciano and Sangiovese grapes and subjected to a particular fermentation process followed by an aging of 12 months, originated on the occasion of the celebration of the fifth centenary of the birth of Felice Peretti from Montalto, then Pope Sixtus V from 1585 to 1590, to celebrate the figure, defined by the historian Ludwig Von Pastor, in his monumental “History of the Popes”, so important that it rightly deserves the title of “great”. Born from Piergentile, known as Peretto, and from Marianna on 13^th of December 1521, the young Felice soon entered the Convent of S. Francesco in Montalto, starting his training there which led him to study in Pesaro, Iesi, Arcevia and Bologna. His theological preparation and his faculty as a preacher made him famous everywhere and favored his career, so much so that he became a Cardinal in 1570 and even Pope in 1585. In the five years of his pontificate he creates an incredible amount of works in Rome and throughout the state of the church and interacts with important events in international history. All this without ever forgetting his “dearest homeland”, Montalto, which he will raise to the status of a city, making it a center of Diocese and Chief Town of the Presidato (a territory of 17 municipalities governed by a Dean / Governor). Precisely to exalt this figure who worked so hard for Montalto, to which he also donated precious sacred furnishings and a reliquary of admirable Parisian goldsmith art of the fourteenth century, of great value, the same place where he also had a property with prosperous vineyards from which he obtained, even then, excellent wine. Sixtus was born with its fine quality and wanted to pay a worthy homage to this great pope who cared about the Piceno territory so much.