The 17 hectare vineyard of Chateau Pibran is planted to 54% Merlot, 45% Cabernet Sauvignon, and 1% Petit Verdot. With that much Merlot planted in their vineyards, Chateau Pibran has perhaps the largest percentage of Merlot in Pauillac.  Chateau...

Now with more than two decades of perfect maturity, tar, licorice and dried meats provide the background to the sweet cherry fruit that coats the palate on this ’94 Barolo Brunate-Le Coste, and it’s only beginning to show tertiary notes of...

Wine Spectator:  100 Points  Absolutely amazing. Looks like liquid caramel coming out of the bottle when poured. It's full-bodied, thick and very sweet, with butterscotch, toffee, honey and caramel aromas and flavors. One of the world's great...

The history of the Vietti winery traces its roots back to the 19th Century. Only at the beginning of the 20th century, however, did the Vietti name become a winery offering its own wines in bottle.Patriarch Mario Vietti, starting from 1919 made the first...

Mastroberardino continues to be a source of magnificently cellared gems that show the class and age-ability of the Agilianico grape and an amazing terroir that evokes not only the profoundly varied geology of this part of southern Italy, but also an...

Wine Spectator: 94 PointsA lovely, layered red, offering baked strawberry and cherry fruit accented by graphite, chartreuse liqueur, leather and citrus peel aromas. Vibrant and minerally, with creamy tannins and a subtle streak of tarry smoke echoing on...

VINEYARDROCCHE DI CASTIGLIONETownship of Castiglione Falletto and Monforte d’Alba – 0.63 ha - Menzione Geografica of Barolo Rocche di Castiglione is a beautiful menzione geografica. It is a long strip of land overlooking the rocks, or...

Producer's Note:The Mondoca vineyard, our own property, is located in Monforte d’Alba within the menzione geografica “Bussia” not far from the village of Dardi. Its soil is Miocene-Serravallian and has yellow, sandy swaths of soil that...

Producer's Note:The Mondoca vineyard, our own property, is located in Monforte d’Alba within the menzione geografica “Bussia” not far from the village of Dardi. Its soil is Miocene-Serravallian and has yellow, sandy swaths of soil that...

Decanter: Rating 4.5 stars Drink 2014–2025Although overshadowed by the much-touted 1997 vintage, 1998 produced grapes of at least as high quality, and in the opinion of many growers, better balanced than the preceding year. These...

VINEYARDROCCHE DI CASTIGLIONETownship of Castiglione Falletto and Monforte d’Alba – 0.63 ha - Menzione Geografica of Barolo Rocche di Castiglione is a beautiful menzione geografica. It is a long strip of land overlooking the rocks, or...

Vinous: 97 Points Another stunning wine, the 1999 Barolo Riserva Vecchie Viti dei Capalot e delle Brunate bursts from the glass with superb depth and pure power. Black fruit, smoke, tar, licorice and menthol are some of the many notes that take...

Wine Spectator: 98 Points  A jaw-dropper, with quince, persimmon, mango, fig and blood orange marmalade notes providing a kaleidoscopic experience as this moves along, slowly pulling in more ginger, marzipan, green fig and date notes. The...

Wine Advocate: 94+ PointsThe yellow-golden colored 1995 Vouvray le Mont Moelleux is super clear and piquant on the spicy/peppery flavored nose with its perfectly ripe and elegant, perfectly balanced fruit. It has the same balance on the palate that...

Robert Parker's Wine Advocate: 95 Points The 1995 Chianti Classico Riserva is another marvelously complete wine. Waves of fruit saturate the palate in this intense, full-bodied Riserva. The 1995 is another wine endowed with massive fruit and equally...

Wine Spectator: 95 PointsDeep, rich and enormously complex, loaded with ripe currant, black cherry, blackberry, anise, cedar and spice, with a long, lingering finish that keeps pumping out the flavors. (02/2001) Connoisseurs Guide: 91...

Robert Parker's Wine Advocate: 93 Points Readers will find a full, head-on expression of Terrano in the 1991 Terranum, a wine that has only been released recently. Dark fruit, grilled herbs, licorice and earthiness flow from this mid-weight yet...

Vinous: 96 PointsA bevy of white flowers, toffee, Armagnac, mint, pine and mocha aromas flow from the Avignonesi’s 1999 Vin Santo, a wine I would say is the richest Vin Santo made, were it not for the estate’s Occhio di Pernice! Smooth, silky...