Meeting Giulia Negri in person is an unforgettable experience. How can anyone so vivacious and sporting a smile so wide and genuine be so serious and accomplished a winemaker?   Well, those dancing eyes, in addition to radiating an...

Leave it to Italy to come up with yet another novel grape variety to tempt our taste buds and expand our repertoire of fascinating Italian wines. I am speaking of Nascetta (nah-shetta), a unique and delicious white wine variety local to the...

I first met Massimo Martinelli at the old Renato Ratti cantina in La Morra now almost 20 years ago.  At the time, he was not only the longtime winemaker at Ratti (he was Ratti’s nephew, and started working there when he was 15), he was also...

Wine Country: ItalyWine Subregion: Piemonte

Free shipping on 4+ bottles Mix & Match with:2019 Achille Boroli Barolo 'Villero' (click to buy) About a decade has passed since Boroli’s 2015 Cerequio was harvested, so it’s time to revisit the wine from this...

Free shipping on 4+ bottles Mix & Match with:2015 Achille Boroli Barolo 'Cerequio' (click to buy) A Villero Barolo will always impress for its distinctive, almost exotic aromatics and formidable structure. The studious, meticulous Achille...

In Piemontese dialect, the term ‘Ronchi’ refers to a hillside plot of land that has been cleared for cultivation, and in the case of the Rocca family, it perfectly describes their 16 hectares of vineyards. Situated in a virtual amphitheater...

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,...

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...

Fahgettaboutit! Tiziana only makes the Riserva in truly special vintages and 2019 was about as good as it gets. We love the new black label the reserva gets too. It’s always lovely to sit down with Tiziana and her son Davide to catch up on...

Fahgettaboutit! Tiziana only makes the Riserva in truly special vintages and 2019 was about as good as it gets. We love the new black label the reserva gets too. It’s always lovely to sit down with Tiziana and her son Davide to catch up on...

Vinous, 97 points: The 2020 Barbaresco Riserva Montestefano is one of the most elegant, polished wines in this range. Bright red-toned fruit, blood orange, spice, mint and cedar are beautifully lifted. The tannins are remarkably polished for a...

Is Rocche the La Tache of La Morra!? This flagship wine for the cantina is some of the classiest juice out there, and Tiziana deserves every cent of the $80 she’s getting for this wine, especially when you consider what her neighbors get for lesser...

Is Rocche the La Tâche of La Morra!? This flagship wine for the cantina is some of the classiest juice out there, and Tiziana deserves every cent of the $80 she’s getting for this wine, especially when you consider what her neighbors get for...

Quite honestly, I don’t know how Paolo and Cristina Baudana scrape out a living from the tiny holdings they have in northeastern part of the Barolo zone. They make so little wine—barely 10,000 bottles—you scarcely ever see it beyond a...

With vines in the Perno and Castelletto MGAs in Monforte d’Alba and cellars near Novello, three young friends have some great raw material with which to work and fashion their Nebbiolo from younger vines in...

Ground shipping included on 6 bottles or more, mixed and matched with Penna-Currado wines When Luca Currado-Vietti and Elena Penna sold their beloved Vietti, it sent shockwaves through the wine world. What would happen to Vietti, everyone wondered, now...

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, what...

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...

Price $33.99/CASE PRICE $360/$30 per bottle 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...

Cooperatives are not an unusual phenomenon in Europe. Almost every growing region on the continent has at least one place where growers with no ability to make their own wine can send their grapes and get a decent return on their hard work. Most aren’t...