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,...
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...
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.
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Giulia might be the best-known face among those featured today as the whole world met her when she appeared with actor Stanley Tucci on his TV tour of Italy last year. But meeting Giulia Negri in person is far more fun than on the tube...
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!...
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...
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,...
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,...
The Zero Dosage is produced with grapes from the terraced vineyards of Montorfano, adjacent to the winery's headquarters, and others vineyards. The ancient and ferrous lands of the Montorfano characterize this wine...
Few realize that this historic Barolo-centric cantina in Santa Maria di La Morra, the very heart of the Barolo producing zone, also produces a stunning Barbaresco from vines the family has owned for over a century. The vineyard is Gallina, a...
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 of...
PRIMA Notes: The best examples of Timorasso I know have the sort of green grape, dried honey, skinned nut quality I associate with the Chenin Blanc of Vouvray, but its minerality, verve and brilliant fruit texture a more akin to, I’d say, a Cotes...
"There is a red wine of Nebiule (Nebbiolo) made in this neighborhood which is very singular. It is about as sweet as the silky Madeira, as astringent on the palate as Bordeaux, and as brisk as Champagne. It is a pleasing wine." - Thomas Jefferson ~...
Wine professionals love to argue about Pigato, the very intriguing white grape indigenous to Liguria. Pigato is Vermentino many argue. But ask any farmer working the steep, rocky slopes that loom over the ocean there and they’ll tell...
2018 Deltetto Alta Langa Brut PN-CH Millesimato DOCG 3LITER
Like all of the sparklers at Deltetto, the Alta Langa Brut is made in the traditional ‘Metodo Classico’ (the same as the French Champagne Method) with a secondary fermentation...
All Arneis wines are not created equal, especially now that this grape, once seemingly destined for extinction, has become, by far, the most popular and voluminous white wine made in the Langhe. People I guess forgot that it’s a...
It was Antonio Deltetto’s passion for Champagne that changed the fortunes of the winery he took over from his father in 1980. He had the idea he could make good sparkling right there from his own vineyards in the Roero, an idea most of his...
All Arneis wines are not created equal, especially now that this grape, once seemingly destined for extinction, has become, by far, the most popular and voluminous white wine made in the Langhe. People I guess forgot that it’s a...
Like all of the sparklers at Deltetto, the Alta Langa Brut is made in the traditional ‘Metodo Classico’ (the same as the French Champagne Method) with a secondary fermentation in the bottle and extended time on the lees. The house...
Regular Price $45.00, Debut Price $39.99, SOLID CASE WITH SHIPPING INCLUDED $432/$36 per bottle
It was Antonio Deltetto’s passion for Champagne that changed the fortunes of the winery he took over from his father in 1980. He had the...
The sibling duo of Camilla and Francesco Scavino founded this small winery in 2014 at the foot of the medieval castle that towers over the village of Grinzane Cavour. The name “Bricco Carlina” is a reference to the...
The Arneis “Bricco delle Ciliegie” is the perfect wine to understand the extraordinary potential of grown in the Roero Arneis. Domenico Almondo, theowner of the Giovanni Almondo winery, represents a true landmark in this area and the eighties...
Importer's Notes: Particular note of ripe fruit in a dry and intense wine, which cuddles and fills the mouth. Deep ruby red in color. Distinct and elegant aroma of ripe red fruit and black cherry, with scents of spices and vanilla. Round in the...
Winery Notes: A wine obtained exclusively from Pinot Bianco grapes, a varietal of great excellence, particularly suited to hilly areas, which has adapted perfectly to Friuli and in particular to the area of Collio. The Pinot Bianco has been planted in a...
TASTING NOTES: Refined and elegant. Clear hints of acacia, pear and peach with touches of tropical fruit. The attack is soft and persistent. The taste is fresh and balanced with a savory finish, typical of wines deriving from the sandy soils of...
VINEYARDS: Estate vineyards are planted on clay- and limestone-rich soils, unique to the region, with topsoils of gravel, the classic terroir of Grave.
AGE OF VINES: 20 years, on average
WINEMAKING: Hand-harvested. Pressed full cluster (color...
Winery Notes: Brilliant straw-yellow colour. Refined, quite pronounced, fresh nose with aromatical notes of ripe yellow fruit (melon), citrus, floral and mineral nuances, with a hint of almond. Medium-bodied on the palate, is has good intensity and...
James Suckling 93 Points: Lovely barbaresco, with all the typical nebbiolo characteristics, such as red berries, mushrooms and dried leaves, as well as hints of bitter orange peel and spice. All this follows through to the medium-to full-bodied...
Young, fresh and dynamic! An appealing freshness as well as the balance of elegance and aromatic notes promise an easy drinking pleasure. The Pinot Grigio Mont Mès impresses with its fruity characteristics. The lower alcohol...
Walter Fissore at Cogno has done an incredible job with Nascetta, taking this relatively unknown grape of Novello and bringing out its richness, texture and lovely character. In a blind tasting you might think it was a very fine Vouvray!...
Importer's Notes: Gunther Kershbaumer loves his vineyards. He just doesn’t have enough of them. As the reference point producer in the Isarco River Valley, Kofererhof wines are in high demand, so he’s always looking for new parcels to...
Nicholas Altare loves the land, the countryside, and his work. He has the good fortune to find himself with an estate handed down from generation to generation, and to have found a mentor in Barolo producer Ferdinando Principiano. Until 2015 his...
The hills are alive! This is what Heidi would drink! 2020 Weingut Kofererhof Sylvaner, Eisaktaler-Valle Isarco, Sudtirol-Alto Adige If a wine could perfectly express its origins, the Kofererhof’s Sylvaner might be one of the most...
Tasting Notes: Brovia’s Arneis is as good as it gets for this white grape from Piedmont. The wine offers mineral tones, citrus zest, and crisp and lightly exotic notes. This is absolutely delicious stuff with great vibrancy and soft-textured fruit...
Winery Notes: At Roagna, we have extremely strict parameters for our wine that is labeled RISERVA. The vineyard must be located within specific historical land of Barolo with really old vines in order to have RISERVA on the...
Importer's Notes: 100% Barbera From small parcels in the Serraboella vineyard in Neive, 350 meters elevation, Clay soil, Southeast-facing, Vine aged 25 yearsFermentation and maceration over 8-12 days in steel vats at controlled...
This is a lovely, exceedingly dry, and extremely nuanced bottle of pink bubbles. We were very pleased with its lifted aromatics. It reminded me of a gorgeous dry Provencal Rose with fine bubbles.
A "Negociant Winemaker" is how one might define Christian Patat, founder of Nec-Otium. For years, he chose to vinify each wine in the range in the winery of the grape grower. As such , all the wines are a perfect reflection of terroir where they grown...