The name of this obscure, off-the-beaten path appellation in Italy actually takes longer to say than to drive through but, trust me, once you’ve had a glass or two, ‘Blanc de Morgex et de La Salle’ will just roll off your tongue. The...

#19 on PRIMA's Top 25 Wines of 2025 Free ground shipping on 6+ bottles! Let’s go far south, all the way to the slopes of Mount Etna for Alberto Graci’s delightful rosato of Nerello Mascalese. Graci is located...

This is our mostest-favoritest rosé of the new vintage so far. Sure, you can be forgiven for never having heard of the Susumaniello grape. In order to, you’d, most likely, either be studying for your second level sommelier exam or...

The affable but driven Elisa Semino has become (after the iconic Walter Massa) the best-known producer in all of the Derthona appellation! A passionate advocate for the region, she, along with her father and brother, serves as one of 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...

Free ground shipping on 6+ bottles There’s more than just outrageously good Brunello going on at Le Ragnaie. This tiny boutique estate with organically farmed parcels in three of Montalcino’s best climats also produces a wine the rest of us...

The iconic Giovanni Almondo Arneis ‘Bricco delle Ciliegie’ really needs no introduction here at PRIMA but, in case you are one of the few who have yet to discover the joys of this delicious Roero Arneis, here is a word of explanation. The...

Let me see if I have this straight. You’re asking me to buy a $40 Chardonnay from Barbaresco made by an Australian? Yep! Trust me. I wouldn’t go to all the work of trying to if I didn’t think it was worth your while. So…if you want to succeed in the...

Wine Country: Italy Wine Subregion: Piemonte Wine Sub-subregion: Asti Wine Varietal: Moscato

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 that they were gone? We shouldn’t have worried. Vietti is just fine. And it was in...

Free ground shipping on 12+ bottlesMix & Match with 2023 Flowers Pinot Noir, Sonoma Coast This just-released 2024 is a beautifully balanced wine with all of the great acidity and lovely, lacy fruit this iconic far-coast vineyard can provide. We...

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...

Location, location, location! We discovered not too long ago that Sonoma-Cutrer’s top-quality Russian River Ranches cuvée is largely sourced from the Chardonnay vines planted on either side of the driveway that runs up to the hill to the...

Regular Price $22.99, Case Price (12+ bottles) $20.69 Brokenwood is, to those who remember their wines from the old days, one of the Hunter Valley’s most venerable estates and one of a precious few wineries in the world that specialize in making...

The 2024 Quenard Savoie Blanc is 100% Jacquère, a regional grape variety that is unique to this part of France and well-suited to the alpine climate, where it yields a wine that is crisp and lively, with a citrus-like aroma and sleek texture on...

Cantina Gallura’s higher-end Canayli Vermentino is a longtime PRIMA favorite, but we’ve just rediscovered their Piras cuvée, an even lighter, fresher version of Vermentino at an even better price! Grown in the rugged, sun-drenched...

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...

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,...

Chinon is at its best when it’s in this unoaked, super juicy, super aromatic and super scrumptious mode. Dark, almost black, in color, the aromatics are so vivid, so lively and so much fun. Black cherries, mulberries, blueberries, violets, tobacco,...

My first major task as a budding wine consultant in Chicago, at the tender age of 24, was to order and stock the store’s section that happened to include the wines of Greece. It was a slow-moving section as wines with names like Alexakis,...

For an area so associated with high quality whites (80% of the production), it’s somewhat hard to believe that in Alto Adige, the most widely planted grape variety is actually the red called Schiava.  So ubiquitous are the distinctive wooden...

With a cellar in the hamlet of Annunziata, the Bovios have long farmed some of La Morra’s best vineyards for Nebbiolo including Arborina (next to Elio Altare), Rocchettevino and, perhaps best, an impressive (but small) holding in Gattera, the...

SOLID CASE OF 12 with free shipping, $540 ($45/bottle) Those of us in the wine business—well, those of us who truly love wine anyway—make no pretense toward absolute impartiality when it comes to judging our favorites. We form deep emotional...