2022

2022 Caymus California Cabernet Sauvignon
Caymus
2022 Caymus California Cabernet Sauvignon
Free Ground Shipping on 6 or more bottles! Caymus already has a well-established, nearly fifty-year old beachhead in the center of the Napa Valley. Their Napa Valley Cabernet Sauvignon is a benchmark few others can reach in terms of style-recognition...
$49.99
Clos du Val Estate Cabernet Sauvignon Napa Valley
2022 Clos du Val Estate Cabernet Sauvignon, Napa Valley
Ground shipping is included on 6 bottles or more 77% Cabernet Sauvignon, 12% Merlot, 5% Malbec, 4% Cabernet Franc, 2% Petit Verdot It’s been well over a half century since Clos du Val burst on the Napa Valley scene in the early 1970s. How well we...
$65.00
$44.99
2022 Merry Edwards Pinot Noir, Anderson Valley
2022 Merry Edwards Pinot Noir, Anderson Valley
Wine Country: America Wine Subregion: California Wine Varietal: Pinot Noir The more things have changed over the past few years at Merry Edwards Winery, the more they’ve really stayed the same.  Now firmly under the control of the Champagne...
$54.99
2023 Accadia 'Consono' Verdicchio di Castello di Jesi
2023 Accadia 'Consono' Verdicchio di Castello di Jesi
$18.99, CASE PRICE $204/$17 per bottle My trip to Le Marches on the Adriatic Coast of Italy last year proved to be very instructive.  Along with a deep love for this mercifully-less-touristed area, I came away with a wonderful appreciation of the...
$19.99
2022 Cantina Valle Isarco Kerner
Cantina Valle Isarco
2022 Cantina Valle Isarco Kerner
While the Pinot Grigio is an all-time favorite at PRIMA, the one Valle Isarco cuvée we prize the most and get the least is their Kerner. This hybrid cross between Riesling and the red Schiava (a.k.a. Trollinger) grapes was developed to showcase...
$25.99
2022 Le Vignoble du Reveur 'Singulier' Alsace Blanc
2022 Le Vignoble du Reveur 'Singulier' Alsace Blanc
When speaking of Alsace these days, it’s a safe bet to use the wines of Marcel Deiss as a jumping off point. While not as well-known as, say, Zind-Humbrecht or Domaine Weinbach, Deiss was one of the prime movers of the biodynamic farming movement in...
$33.99
2022 Le Vignoble du Reveur Vin de France Rouge ‘Rien ne Bouge’
2022 Le Vignoble du Reveur Vin de France Rouge ‘Rien ne Bouge’
When speaking of Alsace these days, it’s a safe bet to use the wines of Marcel Deiss as a jumping off point. While not as well-known as, say, Zind-Humbrecht or Domaine Weinbach, Deiss was one of the prime movers of the biodynamic farming movement in...
$33.99
2022 Jim Barry Lodge Hill Riesling
Jim Barry
2022 Jim Barry Lodge Hill Riesling
$18/bottle on orders of 12+ bottles 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...
$22.99
$19.99
Ca' del Baio Asili Barbaresco
Ca’ del Baio
2022 Ca' del Baio Asili Barbaresco
Ground Shipping included on 3 bottles or more Unfortunately for us, Ca’ del Baio is no longer the best-kept secret in Barbaresco it once was. The news, thanks to their rave reviews, the annual visits of the PRIMA gang and the profiling of the...
$64.99
2022 Alfio Mozzi Valtellina Superiore Sassella 'Grisone'
Alfio Mozzi
2022 Alfio Mozzi Valtellina Superiore Sassella 'Grisone'
Our resident Italophile Tadd Tanji recently told us that, while he still professes an undying love of the wines of ArPePe, the crown jewel property of Lombardia’s Valtellina, he’s having an intense fling...
$34.99
2022 RouteStock Chardonnay, Sonoma Coast
2022 RouteStock Chardonnay, Sonoma Coast
It’s really not hard to find an inexpensive California Chardonnay out there, but if it’s quality and distinction you’re hoping for at that under-$25 price point, your options become markedly fewer.  We’ve been fans of...
$22.99
$17.99
2022 Aurelio Settimo Dolcetto d'Alba
Aurelio Settimo
2022 Aurelio Settimo Dolcetto d'Alba
These vines face southeast in Arborina, across the road from Settimo on a slope that, on the opposite side of the swale, belongs to Elio Altare. Why isn’t this Barolo? Because, Tiziana says, ‘we love Dolcetto!’ This is a darker, richer,...
$24.99
2022 Aurelio Settimo Langhe Nebbiolo
Aurelio Settimo
2022 Aurelio Settimo Langhe Nebbiolo
A very hot and dry 2022 made, what is for Settimo, a bigger-boned wine with some serious chutzpah. It’s a longtime PRIMA favorite in the ‘baby Barolo’ style with a lot of class and nuance. Love this wine. Very highly...
$37.99
2022 Franz Haas Pinot Grigio, Vigneti delle Dolomiti 750 ml
2022 Franz Haas Pinot Grigio, Vigneti delle Dolomiti 750 ml
The late Franz Haas was the seventh Franz in a long line of Haases from Montagna and was the man responsible for elevating the family business to one of the most revered in the entire Adige Valley.  Franz approached his work with an incredible...
$24.99
$15.99
2022 Catena Vista Flores Malbec
2022 Catena Vista Flores Malbec
The Argentine Malbec category has gotten nearly as crowded as the New Zealand Sauvignon Blanc section as so many producers have joined the party over the past few years.  Too bad.  Most of them- especially those under $20 a bottle- are really...
$18.99
$17.99
Cayuse 'No Girls' Double Lucky 8
Cayuse
2022 Cayuse 'No Girls' Double Lucky 8, Walla Walla
#25 on PRIMA's Top 25 Wines of 2025 Cayuse, it could be argued, is the producer that truly put Washington State on the world wine map! I, personally, have only had opportunity to try a few before getting my hands on this bottle of Double Lucky 8,...
$59.99
2022 Riecine Chianti Classico
2022 Riecine Chianti Classico
The modern history of this iconic Chianti producer with the Etruscan name goes back only 50 years, but what a 50 years it has been!  This ancient estate high at the top of Gaiole was rejuvenated in the early 1970s by one John Dunkley, who famously...
$39.99
2022 Badia Coltibuono Cultusboni 'Cetamura' Chianti
2022 Badia Coltibuono Cultusboni 'Cetamura' Chianti
Coltibuono’s Cetamura nails what everyday Tuscan wine should be: honest, juicy and vibrant. With bright cherry, gentle herbs and a whiff of terracotta, it’s pure Sangiovese joy straight from the hills of Gaiole. A brilliant pizza and pasta...
$17.99
$13.99
2022 Pieter Ferreira Birdsong Blanc Extra Brut Cap Classique
2022 Pieter Ferreira Birdsong Blanc Extra Brut Cap Classique
Staff Reviews: John Rittmaster, Wine Director: "Chardonnay and Pinot Noir. An excellent example of a seamless, textural style that emphasizes mouthfeel and finish over aromatics or aggressive bubble. Very easy to love this. Doesn’t need...
$44.99
2022 Schramsberg Blanc de Noirs Brut, North Coast
2022 Schramsberg Blanc de Noirs Brut, North Coast
Staff Reviews: John Rittmaster, Wine Director: "This is such a solid bottles of bubbles! Nice, fresh and complex. Perfect for a backyard celebration. One of America’s real blue chips. ***" Frank Rothstein, Minister of Value: "Tons of flavors and...
$41.99
2022 Baricci Rosso di Montalcino Montosoli
2022 Baricci Rosso di Montalcino Montosoli
PRICE $44.99, CASE PRICE $480/$40 per bottle When it comes to vineyard aristocracy in Montalcino, a few places really stand out and those planted atop and around Montosoli Hill are perhaps the crème de la crème of the appellation...
$44.99
2022 Beaux Freres Pinot Noir, Willamette Valley
2022 Beaux Freres Pinot Noir, Willamette Valley
$74.99 with shipping included on 6 bottles or moreWe first visited Beaux Freres back in the early 1990s when it was still a very small struggling winery with a blossoming cult-like following for its scintillating, ground-breaking wines. Founder Michael...
$74.99
2022 Bruno Giacosa Nebbiolo d'Alba Valmaggiore
2022 Bruno Giacosa Nebbiolo d'Alba Valmaggiore
One of the grandest of the Grand Maestri of Piemonte’s ‘Greatest Generation’ of wine pioneers, Bruno Giacosa only began bottling his own wine in the 1960s, but his legendary perfectionism in the cellar and amazing instincts with regards...
$55.99
2022 Chateau Cesseras Minervois Cuvee Olric
2022 Chateau Cesseras Minervois Cuvee Olric
Chateau Cesseras is just one part of the larger Domaine Coudelet, owned by brothers Jean-Yves and Pierre-Andre Ournac. They are joined by Guillaume (Jean-Yves’ son), Camille and Fanely (Pierre-Andre’s son and daughter). Camille is the highly...
$19.99
$15.99
2022 Domaine Michel Magnien Vosne-Romanee Vieilles Vignes
Michel Magnien
2022 Domaine Michel Magnien Vosne-Romanee Vieilles Vignes
Sexy, voluptuous Vosne from really old vines … oh my goodness!  Old vines farmed biodynamically give seriously concentrated Pinot fruit: black cherry, raspberry liqueur, rose petal and that telltale Vosne spice—star anise, clove, a...
$99.99
2022 Lang & Reed Cabernet Franc, California 375mL
Lang & Reed
2022 Lang & Reed Cabernet Franc, California 375mL
This pairs with all kinds of food and could serve as the poster boy for what finesse is possible when you approach Cab Franc with a lighter hand. The nose offers Kirsch that runs to black currant or blueberry, with hints of wet earth, black pepper and,...
$15.99
2022 Margherita Otto Langhe Nebbiolo
2022 Margherita Otto Langhe Nebbiolo
We first met Alan Manley in, of all places, the Bartolo Mascarello cellar in the town of Barolo. It was Alan who showed us around this cathedral of traditional Barolo winemaking until Maria-Theresa could free herself up for our appointment. Turns out...
$44.99
2022 Peter Veyder-Malberg Riesling 'Elsarner Brandstatt'
2022 Peter Veyder-Malberg Riesling 'Elsarner Brandstatt'
They say that the best wines in the world always reflect the character of the person who made them, and that couldn’t be truer than the wines of Peter Veyder-Malberg. Peter is one of the most intense, focused and visionary winemakers we’ve...
$164.99
$119.99
Spottswoode Estate Cabernet Sauvignon, St. Helena
2022 Spottswoode Estate Cabernet Sauvignon, St. Helena
2022 Spottswoode Cabernet Sauvignon, Family Estate Grown, St. Helena, Napa Valley $284.99, shipping included “When I think of what St. Helena Cabernet Sauvignon should be, I often think of Spottswoode. The wines are simply classic.” Antonio...
$284.99