Legendary Mauro Franchino and his nephew Alberto Raviciotti farm a scant 3 hectares practicing sustainable viticulture. They select only their best Nebbiolo to make their wines in their tiny winery in the center of Gattinara. On a typical year,...
2019 Caymus Suisun Grand Durif 1.5L Magnums
Winemaker Notes
A vibrant, velvety purple, the 2019 vintages features scents of supple leather and earthy wood. The nose is layered with notes of ripe blackberries, rose petals and a hint of clove...
Most of you don't know about Bodegas LAN's "employee cuvee."
Otherwise known as their "Rioja D-12," this deliciousness is an assemblage of barrels that LAN's entire team (everyone - from vineyard management, to winemaking, to operations, to sales)...
There are blue chips and there are blue chips and you could argue that this benchmark Cabernet is the bluest of Napa Valley’s bluest! My father-in-law shared his last bottle of 1968 ‘BV George’ with us in 1998 and it was...
Importer's Notes: Deep crimson color with a lush and velvety texture. A complex nose of red fruit with tobacco and hints of licorice. Full and round in the mouth with budding notes of leather and cured meat.
2016 Capanna Brunello di Montalcino 'Nicco'
James Suckling: Very beautiful aromas of crushed cherries and flowers, such as violets. Some fresh mushroom and tile as well. Full-bodied with extremely polished tannins and an ultra-silky texture...
2016 Capanna Brunello di Montalcino
James Suckling: Gorgeous aromas of black cherry, cedar, leather and dried flowers follow through to a full body with firm, creamy tannins that are long and caressing. Tight and focused. Pretty clarity to...
Winery Notes
Iron Corral Cabernet Sauvignon is named for our Iron Corral Vineyard and is our first new estate wine in 20 years. The ideal balance of Mountain and Valley Floor Estates, this wine delivers beautiful, full fruit retention, enhanced by the...
2019 Grand Veneur Cotes du Rhone 'Les Champauvins'
2022 was the year of the Cotes du Rhone at PRIMA! It seems like everything we tried from either 2018 or 2019 was either delicious, well-priced or both! It was really hard to pick a favorite...
The 2019 Tether Cabernet Sauvignon bursts from the glass with abundant aromas of black currant liqueur, huckleberry compote and blueberry pie. The gorgeous dark fruit core is complemented by layers of volcanic rock, spring flowers, mocha, spice and...
Unfortunately for us, Ca’ del Baio is no longer the best-kept secret in Barbaresco it once was. The news, thanks to their reviews, the annual visits of the PRIMA gang and the profiling of the Grasso sisters in Suzanne Hoffman’s...
PRIMA Notes: We’ve already featured a few stellar examples from the appellation like Oddero’s and the Titon from L’Armangia that really rung our chimes, but we’re particularly in love with Guido Berta’s 2015 Nizza, a...
Mosconi is such a particular terroir and Chiara, like I think she did for Cannubi, has worked very hard to distill its uniqueness into her wine. Not as beefy and monolithic as some other wines from Monforte, it’s still the most...
There are many who think this has become the top wine in the cellar as it shows all of the hallmark elegance and balance of this cellar. To me it is always the wine I’d most want to use to show off the many attributes of Barolo in general...
A young winery that’s very much on the lips of everyone in the Langhe, the young brother-sister combo Alberto and Caterina Burzi’s cellar is in an innocuous-looking building off the Santa Maria parking lot, just across the street from...
Giulia might be the best-known face among those featured today as the whole world met her when she appeared with actor Stanley Tucci on his TV tour of Italy last year. But meeting Giulia Negri in person is far more fun than on the tube...
Tasting this old-school Chianti producer’s Riserva is like a cheap ticket back to the splendid but arid hills of Radda-in-Chianti. In fact, there is this lovely restaurant called Le Vigne that sits in...
PRIMA Notes: Aged in French oak barrels, as opposed to the American oak that remains the stylistic signature of both Silver Oak Cabs, it was to be an elegant, rather Bordeaux-leaning wine that also would preserve the essential character- the Napa...
35% Corvina,35% Corvinone, 23% Rondinella and 7% Oseleta
Decanter: A relatively restrained nose shows dried garden herbs with plum and floral nuances. On the palate, fig and prune flavours are laced with cigar smoke...
Poor Cahors. For years this southwestern French appellation has had to live down a reputation for rustic, tannic Malbec-based reds that often required decades to mature and, even then, you could never be sure what you were going to get when you opened it...
2018 Groth Cabernet Sauvignon, Oakville, Napa Valley Regular Price $72, Insiders Special $59.99 with shipping included on 6 bottles or more
One of the leitmotivs at PRIMA these past few years has been reaffirming our...