$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...

Featuring a wine from Tenuta Bibbiano, located in Castellina in Chianti, is a real flash from the past for me. This well-known estate, one of the oldest in Tuscany, was part of the wine portfolio that our company imported and distributed when I was just...

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...

Vernaccia is one of those wines often best enjoyed in situ, i.e. sitting outdoors at an trattoria underneath one of San Gimignano’s infamous towers and watching the tourists go by as you enjoy your Panzanella. It tends toward lightness...

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...

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...

Ground shipping included on 6 bottles or more 95 points Wine Enthusiast, 93 points James Suckling, 93 points Vinous Nardi’s 2018 Brunello di Montalcino is a juicy, fruit-forward wine that shows the breed of the vintage, the advantages of a cooler...

Regular Price $94.00, Brave New World Special $69.99Shipping included on 6 bottles or more We truly love old-school Brunello like this—intense but elegant, inward-looking and slow to reveal its charms. Each year, Podere Brizio makes some of the...

Buy 12 or more and pay only $26.00 each All located within a few kilometers of each other in A Monti in Gaiole-in-Chianti, San Giusto a Rentennano, Il Palazzino, Badia a Coltibuono and Rocca di Montegrossi form a quartet of elite Chianti...

Authentic, artisanal wines, no matter where they come from and what they cost, should be evocative.  They should trigger something emotional inside the drinker, a memory of a place, or a smell, or a person.  When we opened a bottle of...