2020 Edi Keber Collio Bianco
It’s a rare occasion indeed when I can send out an offer on Edi Keber’s totally unique Friulian white. There is very little made, and with the cult-like following this one-wine, two-man cantina...
Winery Notes: Vinification: The grapes are harvest and selected, brought to the winery in shallow crates, where the whole clusters are soft-crushed. Maceration for about a week in steel vats. Maturation in the same vats for about 9 months...
40% Cabernet Sauvignon, 40% Cabernet Franc, 20% Merlot - The wine is then aged in French barrels for two or three years, then racked into Slavonian oak barrels for four more years.
The new vintage of a former PRIMA Wine of the Year winner is here and better than ever. What’s inside is 100% savory Barbera deliciousness! Brava, Cristina.
The last time Maria-Cristina Oddero visited us for a...
Straw yellow in colour with greenish tints. It has a distinctly dry, slightly citrus flavour. On the nose it reveals a pleasant and delicate bouquet with floral notes of acacia blossoms.
Matches well with seafood hors d’oeuvres with...
The pride of viticulture in Corona and one of Tenuta Luisa's most highly demanded wines. The soil and microclimate, as well as the winemaking traditions handed down through the generations, all combine to give a wine with a genuine personality. The...
100% Marzemino, a red grape variety grown in Trentino, Lombardia and Veneto. You’ll find it mentioned in Mozart’s Don Giovanni, as apparently Marzemino was a very polar red wine at the Habsbourg Court in Vienna back then. Fermented and...
Man, how we love this wine! Our emotional attachment to Il Palazzino goes back all the way to the early 1990s when their wines were first imported into the states by Marc de Grazia. I made the pilgrimage there back when I first visited Chianti in...
Winery Notes: With the first in vintage 1974, it is a tradition for Friuli to make Pinot Grigio. And we have a good mixture between river valley vineyards and the hillside. The river valley grapes add freshness, and are a little more thin on the...
Our allocations of this round of Ciacci Piccolomini’s much-coveted Brunellos is pitiful but you, our best Italian wine-loving customers, deserve the 4-1-1. Ciacci, thanks to their position in the southernmost, warmest part of...
PRIMA Notes: The 2019 Langhe Nebb, we’ve loved it ever since it first went into the bottle and it has only gotten better with the extra time in the bottle. While Chiara sometimes glibly calls her Nebbiolo a ‘Baby Barolo,’ I...
Lemon and quince intensity. It has the texture of a wine aged in barrel, real depth, but does not see any oak. Sour-fresh green fruits, a slight grip and surprising intensity and length. Really persistent. Good value."
Rich red wine characteristics meet the light effervescence of a champagne-style sparkler. Ripe strawberry and cherry, blood orange, baking spice, and tangerine pith all culminate in a lip smacking finish. Refreshing, yet with a depth of flavor that...
The star of the show when presented horizontally with her two other 2018 Barolos, Chiara’s 2018 Cannubi is sort of a benchmark for this iconic vineyard- the ultimate blend of everything we think of as Classic Barolo and ditto for Cannubi...
Anyone who has been to San Gimignano knows that everywhere you turn on the winding path to the top of the city, there’s an enoteca selling Vernaccia, the most local of local Tuscan whites. Alas, most of it is best left on the shelves. ...
The smallest production in Sean’s cellar is the wine he calls ‘Uno,’ referring to the single grape variety used in the wine. This is the flagship, Riserva-style wine of the estate and is sourced from the best Sangiovese grapes...
Sean also produces two so-called Super Tuscan cuvees- a designation he hates but probably best describes Il Guericio and Uno. Also 100% Sangiovese, Il Guercio comes from a single high-altitude parcel of grapes. If the Chianti is made to...
They say you can tell a lot about a wine by meeting the winemaker, and that’s very much the case with the vivacious Angela Fronti of the Istine estate in Radda-in-Chianti. She radiates energy from every pore, as well as a deep,...
The jury was out on the 2018 vintage of Barolo for a long time. The harvest was the product of about every natural malady known to man and it took extraordinary attention and meticulous farming and cellar work to get it right. The good news, though, is...
WINE DESCRIPTION - The Greco variety was originally cultivated on the slopes of Vesuvius, where it was given the name Lacryma Christi. It was later planted in the province of Avellino, where it was given the denomination Greco di Tufo. The...
TASTING NOTES - Bright straw-yellow colour with greenish reflections. The bouquet is pleasingly fruity with impressions of white peach and grapefruit, together with white flowers and minerals, fresh herbs. On the palate it is full, juicy,...
The discovery of Cornarea was the product of several years hard research in the Langhe- a search for an Arneis we could recommend to our customers that the locals there themselves loved. I looked at what winemakers ordered when I ate out with them,...
Legendary Mauro Franchino and his nephew Alberto Raviciotti farm a scant 3 hectares practicing sustainable viticulture. They select only their best Nebbiolo to make their wines in their tiny winery in the center of Gattinara. On a typical year,...
Winery Notes: The historic family cellar stands on the bricco del Corsaletto, where the homonymous farmhouse dominates from above the natural amphitheater of vineyards that stands out on the southern slope, in the direction of Liguria / the...
Pale sunshine yellow color and slight frizzante, this Moscato d'Asti has intense aromas of peaches, rose petals and ginger. On the palate, it is delicately sweet and sparkling with balanced acidity, good complexity and a finish of fresh apricots...
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PRIMA Notes: Bramé, in Piemontese dialect means ‘a desire or craving for something,’ and that’s exactly what will happen to you when you taste this beautifully crafted, savory, food-friendly Barbera from the Roero region...
Nowhere else, I think, does the unique soil of a region so inform the style of the wine as it does in the Soave Classico appellation. Located on a sweep of hills that roll eastward as far as the Venice lagoon, this area is not to be confused with...
Importer's Notes: Deep crimson color with a lush and velvety texture. A complex nose of red fruit with tobacco and hints of licorice. Full and round in the mouth with budding notes of leather and cured meat.