#9 on PRIMA's Top 25 Wines of 2025 Ground shipping included on 6 bottles or more Sure, we’re all waiting with bated breath for the much-anticipated 2021 Brunellos to start shipping next year but, in the meantime, what are we...

Launched in 2005, Mongrana has become one of Tuscany’s most dependable values. It’s a blend of Merlot, Sangiovese, Cabernet Sauvignon, Cabernet Franc, Syrah and Petit Verdot, aged 12 months in small oak...

$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...

From La Poderina, one of the best producers of Brunello di Montalcino comes a wine that is, most emphatically, not Brunello.  For one thing, the delicious savory Sangiovese in this wine is blended with 20% of the Bordelaise grape Petit Verdot, an...

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...

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...

Wine Country: Italy Wine Subregion: Lombardy Wine Varietal: Nebbiolo

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...

Wine Country: ItalyWine Subregion: TuscanyWine Sub-subregion: MontalcinoWine Varietal: SangioveseBin Location: enoteca top

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...

Wine Country: ItalyWine Subregion: AbruzzoBin Location: A12-13

Since so many of you asked about what Pacenti 2020 Brunellos would be available, I’ve put together a modest offer of three new arrivals including the Vecchie Vigne (old vines) cuvee, the bellwether Brunello Pelagrilli and a few precious cases of...

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...

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...