Northern Italy

2020 Edi Keber Collio Bianco
Edi Keber
2020 Edi Keber Collio Bianco
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...
$39.99
2013 Quintarelli Alzero IGT Veneto Rosso
Quintarelli
2013 Quintarelli Alzero IGT Veneto Rosso
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.
$499.99
2019 Oddero Nizza
2019 Oddero Nizza
 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...
$35.99
2021 Tenuta Luisa Ribolla Gialla, Isonzo del Friuli
Tenuta Luisa
2021 Tenuta Luisa Ribolla Gialla, Isonzo del Friuli
 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...
$25.00
$19.99
2019 Tenuta Luisa Cabernet Franc, Isonzo del Friuli
Tenuta Luisa
2019 Tenuta Luisa Cabernet Franc, Isonzo del Friuli
 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...
$25.00
$19.99
2019 Roeno "La Rua" Marzemino Vallagarina IGT
Roeno
2019 Roeno "La Rua" Marzemino Vallagarina IGT
 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...
$18.99
2021 Jermann Pinot Grigio Venezia Giulia
Jermann
2021 Jermann Pinot Grigio Venezia Giulia
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...
$24.99
2019 E. Pira Chiara Boschis Langhe Nebbiolo
E. Pira & Figli Chiara Boschis
2019 E. Pira Chiara Boschis Langhe Nebbiolo
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...
$49.99
2018 E. Pira-Chiara Boschis Barolo Cannubi 1.5 Liter
E. Pira & Figli Chiara Boschis
2018 E. Pira-Chiara Boschis Barolo Cannubi 1.5 Liter
 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...
$349.99
2018 Paolo Scavino Barolo DOCG
Paolo Scavino
2018 Paolo Scavino Barolo DOCG
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...
$44.99
2021 Pacher Hof Kerner, Alto Adige-Valle Isarco
Pacher Hof
2021 Pacher Hof Kerner, Alto Adige-Valle Isarco
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,...
$34.99
$29.99
2021 Cornarea Roero Arneis
Cornarea
2021 Cornarea Roero Arneis
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,...
$29.99
2016 Mauro Franchino Gattinara Riserva
Mauro Franchino
2016 Mauro Franchino Gattinara Riserva
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,...
$66.99
2021 Vietti Moscato d'Asti
Vietti
2021 Vietti Moscato d'Asti
 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...
$17.99
2020 Deltetto Barbera d'Alba Superiore 'Brame' 1.5 Liter
Deltetto
2020 Deltetto Barbera d'Alba Superiore 'Brame' 1.5 Liter
MAGNUMS 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...
$69.99
2020 Pra Soave Classico Monte Grande
Pra
2020 Pra Soave Classico Monte Grande
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...
$37.99
2019 Gillardi Dogliani Cursalet
Gillardi
2019 Gillardi Dogliani Cursalet
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.
$36.00
$29.99
2020 Quintarelli Veneto Rosso "Primofiore"
Giuseppe Quintarelli
2020 Quintarelli Veneto Rosso "Primofiore"
Importer's Notes: This red is the exception to the rule at Quintarelli. It is aged for only two to three years—as opposed to seven—and only the Cabernet is partially dried. The Corvina and Corvinone are pressed directly after harvest. The...
$74.99
2019 Ca' del Baio Barbaresco Asili
Ca del Baio
2019 Ca' del Baio Barbaresco Asili
 Unfortunately for us, Ca’ del Baio is no longer the best-kept secret in Barbaresco it once was.  The news, thanks to their reviews, the annual visits of the PRIMA gang and the profiling of the Grasso sisters in Suzanne Hoffman’s...
$64.99
2019 Ca 'del Baio Barbaresco Vallegrande
Ca del Baio
2019 Ca 'del Baio Barbaresco Vallegrande
 Unfortunately for us, Ca’ del Baio is no longer the best-kept secret in Barbaresco it once was.  The news, thanks to their reviews, the annual visits of the PRIMA gang and the profiling of the Grasso sisters in Suzanne Hoffman’s...
$55.99
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2021 Bruno Giacosa Roero Arneis
Bruno Giacosa
2021 Bruno Giacosa Roero Arneis
One of the legendary winemakers of the world, Bruno Giacosa joined the  family business at the age of 15, representing the third generation of  his Langhe winemaking family. Giacosa’s unfailing pursuit of perfection,  his unrivaled...
$27.99
2020 Oddero Timorasso Colli Tortonesi
Oddero
2020 Oddero Timorasso Colli Tortonesi
The wheel continues to turn at Oddero, Barolo’s seminal Santa Maria di La Morra property.  With a history going back to the nineteenth century, it was brought to prominence again in the 1960s by brothers Giacomo and Luigi Oddero who...
$29.99
2015 Guido Berto Nizza 'Canto di Luna'
Guido Berta
2015 Guido Berto Nizza 'Canto di Luna'
PRIMA Notes:  We’ve already featured a few stellar examples from the appellation like Oddero’s and the Titon from L’Armangia that really rung our chimes, but we’re particularly in love with Guido Berta’s 2015 Nizza, a...
$29.99
2018 E. Pira- Chiara Boschis Barolo Cannubi
E. Pira & Figli Chiara Boschis
2018 E. Pira- Chiara Boschis Barolo Cannubi
I believe I have tasted every single vintage of Cannubi Chiara has ever made and this has to be, right out of the bottle, the most immediately ravishing to date.  It may not have the weight of the 2010 or the sheer fruit of the 2016 but, to me,...
$164.99
2018 E. Pira- Chiara Boschis Barolo Mosconi
E. Pira & Figli Chiara Boschis
2018 E. Pira- Chiara Boschis Barolo Mosconi
 Mosconi is such a particular terroir and Chiara, like I think she did for Cannubi, has worked very hard to distill its uniqueness into her wine.  Not as beefy and monolithic as some other wines from Monforte, it’s still the most...
$119.99
2018 E. Pira- Chiara Boschis Barolo Via Nuova
E. Pira & Figli Chiara Boschis
2018 E. Pira- Chiara Boschis Barolo Via Nuova
There are many who think this has become the top wine in the cellar as it shows all of the hallmark elegance and balance of this cellar.  To me it is always the wine I’d most want to use to show off the many attributes of Barolo in general...
$109.99
2019 Burzi Barbera d'Alba 'Plaustra'
Burzi
2019 Burzi Barbera d'Alba 'Plaustra'
 A young winery that’s very much on the lips of everyone in the Langhe, the young brother-sister combo Alberto and Caterina Burzi’s cellar is in an innocuous-looking building off the Santa Maria parking lot, just across the street from...
$24.99
2020 Sori della Sorba Langhe Rosso
Sori della Sorba
2020 Sori della Sorba Langhe Rosso
Apples, they say, don’t fall far from their trees, and five minutes with Carlo Mondavi will confirm that the same applies to grapes.  Carlo is very much like his dad Tim, and there’s an awful lot of his famous grandfather in there too!...
$59.99
2016 Pra Amarone della Valpolicella 'Morandina'
Pra
2016 Pra Amarone della Valpolicella 'Morandina'
35% Corvina,35%  Corvinone, 23% Rondinella and 7% Oseleta   Decanter: A relatively restrained nose shows dried garden herbs with plum and  floral nuances. On the palate, fig and prune flavours are laced with  cigar smoke...
$84.99
2013 Achille Boroli Barolo Cerequio
Achille Baroli
2013 Achille Boroli Barolo Cerequio
Somewhere in the bowels of this computer I have a picture a colleague sent many years ago of (a much younger, much skinnier) me shivering in an ice cold, fresh-off-the-Alps, February wind on the deck of Achille Boroli’s then almost-finished,...
$104.99
2013 Achille Boroli Barolo Villero
Achille Baroli
2013 Achille Boroli Barolo Villero
Somewhere in the bowels of this computer I have a picture a colleague sent many years ago of (a much younger, much skinnier) me shivering in an ice cold, fresh-off-the-Alps, February wind on the deck of Achille Boroli’s then almost-finished,...
$104.99