Buy 12 bottles or more and pay only $23.00 each We consider ourselves Arneis snobs (if such a thing were actually possible). But we get to taste so many, and there have gotten to be so many that are so, well, average, out there. It’s wonderful to...

95 Decanter, 94 Jeb Dunnuck "The 2022 Pinot Noir L'Ensemble is a top 100 Wines of the Year contender.” Jeb Dunnuck Shipping included on orders of 6 bottles or more Even while Pinot Noir from Oregon was catching the imagination of wine lovers...

$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...

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...

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...

While traveling around the Marches a few years ago, I made note of the producers we saw on wine lists at the best enotecas and brought bottles back to sample at our Airbnb near the coast. We found some real gems during our ‘studies,’ none...

Free ground shipping on 6+ bottles The grapes for the Pinot Noir come from the winery’s favorite vineyard sites on the much cooler reaches of the county, closer to the ocean than the vineyards for the Russian River Valley Pinot, making for a bit...

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...

Fermented cool, aged in steel tank and bottled without any fining, filtration or other messing around, this Chinon is not overthought or overwrought; instead, its simplicity results in a level of purity and character over which lovers of Cabernet Franc...

Free ground shipping on 6+ bottles There are something like 120 acres of Vitovska grown in the world—all in Carso. As rugged an individualist as the Carsics themselves, Vitovska, historically, is planted at the highest parts of the hill facing the...

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...

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...

2022 was very hot and dry and 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 recommended.

James Suckling, 96 points: Perfumed aromas of wild blackberries, rose petals, blueberry bush, and forest floor. The palate is tightly wound, with finely integrated tannins and bright acidity, giving notes of dark cherries, cocoa, and cured meat. A...

Nekeas is one of the producers in the highly regarded portfolio of Jorge Ordoñez, the Spanish wine impresario who has almost single-handedly, over the past 30 years, brought the wines of Spain to the attention of American wine lovers and was our...

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...

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Free ground shipping on 6+ bottles   It could be argued that Pommard is Volnay’s “evil twin”—barely a mile away, yet known for prodigious power and sometimes gnarly tannins where Volnay trades in lilting aromatics and grace...

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Regular Price $19.99, Case Price (12+ bottles) $17.99 Out on the cool Margaret River, Shiraz grapes don’t reach the prodigious levels of ripeness possible further east in appellations like the Barossa Valley and McLaren Vale. Though still at a...

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...

Named BEST BUY by Jeff Porter of Wine Enthusiast Ian D'Agata, 92 points: Medium red. Clean and fresh aromas of herbs, licorice, tea, and red fruit have a strong Sangiovese-like quality. Then also nicely penetrating in the mouth, with red berry and...

45% Aragonez, 45% Alicante Bouschet, 10% Syrah Portugal continues to be one of the great hunting grounds for wines that wildly overdeliver, and this Alentejo red is exactly the kind of bottle we love to find—and share! A blend built around...

With a cellar in the hamlet of Annunziata, the Bovios have long farmed some of La Morra’s best vineyards for Nebbiolo including Arborina (next to Elio Altare), Rocchettevino and, perhaps best, an impressive (but small) holding in Gattera, the...

Nero d’Avola, a red wine variety that is planted throughout the southern regions of Italy and the islands of Sicily and Sardinia, has the potential to be a ‘superstar’ among grape types, with a noble character that challenges Syrah and...