Winery Notes: Guyot method with medium-short pruning. Fermentation in temperature controlled stainless steel vats. 15-17 days maceration; malolactic fermentation in stainless steel vats. 12 months in French barrels (50% new oak and 50% oak aged 2...
The 2020 Aldo Conterno Barolos are an impressive group- it was a vintage that truly favored Monforte d’Alba in general and Bussia specifically, and these will be particularly long-lived wines while being quite approachable while still young. It’s an...
The 2015 Barolo is a soft, easygoing wine to drink now and over the next few years, while the red berry and floral notes remain fresh. Alberto Burzi crafts this wine from a collection of parcels in La Morra.
Certified Organic Sourced from 6 vineyard sites in the towns of Barolo (Terlo, Paiagallo, Liste), Monforte (Ravera di Monforte, Mosconi), and Serralunga (Gabutti, Baudana) for a total of 2.5 hectares • Clay marl soil with Sant’Agata...
95 Points - Robert Parker's Wine Advocate:"This wine celebrated its 100-year anniversary in 2016. Representing its 99th birthday, the 2015 Barolo Tre Tine is a blend of fruit from Ravera (60%), Le Coste (20%) and Cannubi San Lorenzo (20%). These sites...
The name Palladino needs no introduction here at PRIMA as it has been the source of our best-selling Barbera d’Alba (still available for $19.99) for going on five years. Their Barolos, though, are much rarer as very few cases actually make...
James Suckling 97 Points: This is a powerful and dense sparkling wine that is first and foremost a classic-quality wine. And then you think about the bubbles. Full-bodied with lots of brioche, pie crust and bread dough. Great finish. Five years on...
Vinous Media: The 2016 Cabernet Sauvignon (Russian River Valley) is another positively stellar wine in this range. Rich, boisterous and super-expressive, the 2016 has so much to offer. Expressive savory and floral notes add tons of...
I stumbled upon these two gems while leafing through an importer’s book and my eyes nearly jumped out of my head! Do these unicorns really exist? This blue chip Barolo Cannubi from a vintage pretty much considered as one of the best vintages ever from...
Fantastic purity of fruit and ripeness with sweet strawberries, white pepper, limestone and dried flowers both on the nose and palate. Full-bodied with layers of fruit and firm, chewy tannins.
Wine Country: Italy Wine Subregion: Piemonte Wine Sub-subregion: Barolo limit 1 per customer To take advantage of one of the most exciting vintages ever at this seminal property, the Scavinos have bottled the second-ever release of the Riserva San...
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...
Sometimes you just have to ask. After selling the entirety of our small allocation of
Tiziana Settimo’s outstanding 2019 Barolo Rocche dell’Annunziata via pre-arrival, we were left with the age-old problem of having too many customers...
Our simple yet unique premise is to make California sparkling wines based on an individual vineyard in an individual year. Inspired in part by the grower Champagne movement, we aim to prove that California can produce unique, delicious and terroir-driven...
The dynamic combination of ‘the two moms’ Francoise Peschon and Lisa Drinkward has produced, for going on twenty vintages now, a Cabernet that is consistently one of the Napa Valley’s most polished and elegant. Pechon, who makes...
100% Sangiovese sourced from Podernovone vineyard at an altitude of 500 meters with south-western exposure, planted in 1998, and Canalicchio vineyard at an altitude of 250 meters with north-western exposure, planted in 1989...
Been a while since we’ve had some good ol’ fashioned Aussie treasures to trumpet but Jim Barry’s Jane Ferrari’s visit last Friday gave us a chance to sink our noses into two truly wonderful values from the Clare Valley. This...
The Leflaive family has resided in the village of Puligny Montrachet for centuries and it is now home to Maison Olivier Leflaive. With it’s variety of 1er Crus and a shared portion of Grand Crus Le Montrachet, Bienvenue-Bâtard Montrachet and...
We’ve sold every vintage of the Sandrones’ wines here at PRIMA since the 1988 harvest arrived (along with me) in 1994, and I can say, that the two Barolos they made in 2017 are amongst the sexiest, most elegant achievements...
Always the most exotic and easily identifiable wine in the cellar, this is super charming and aromatic. Cinnamon sticks, anise seed and a ton of almost blueberry-like fruit make this a standout. Wine Advocate: The Oddero 2017 Barolo Villero is...
80.8% Cabernet Sauvignon, 14.6% Merlot, 2.9% Petit Verdot, 1% Cabernet Franc, 0.7% Malbec and 100% delicious! Another complex but eminently slurp-able Napa Valley Cabernet from this benchmark producer.
My son took us to his favorite ‘top secret, no one can know about this’ music coffee shop in Osaka this past spring. It’s so special he’s worried Japan’s rampant Instagrammers are going to discover it and ruin the place. Anyway, I had a sonic epiphany...