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...

Even though many of us associate winemaker Ehren Jordan with his excellent cool-climate Sonoma Coast Pinots, he is no newcomer to Oregon’s Willamette Valley either, as has he has access to some of the northern Willamette’s best vineyards...

This is never an easy wine to make and, stylistically, Langhe Nebb can range from light, juicy and grapy all the way to Barolo in a minor key. The Bagnascos’ falls neatly right in the middle. Coming from their vineyards on the back side of La Morra...

This Verduno property is very serious about everything they do, even Favorita, the rare white Piemontese grape directly related to Vermentino. From 35-year-old vines, they’ve been bottling this wine since 1986. Bright, fresh and snappy, it’s...

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 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...

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Free ground shipping on 3+ bottles It’s my job to keep my nose in the vineyard dirt in Italy to get firsthand info on what’s new and exciting before those wines can get discovered here and drive the price up and the availability down...

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.

Free ground shipping on 6+ bottles Federico Scarzello is the third generation of Scarzello to run the family cellar literally in the shadow of Barolo castle. Though the family’s first bottling from their now-organically farmed vines in the...

Favorita, for those who like their Italian whites, is the mountain cousin of the Vermentino grape of coastal Liguria, Tuscany and Sardinia. Without the native saltiness so associated with its beach-dwelling relatives, it can seem, in uninspired hands,...