Northern Italy

2021 G.D. Vajra Barolo Albe DOCG
2021 G.D. Vajra Barolo Albe DOCG
The ‘value’ Barolo segment, once filled with a plethora of good choices under $50, has become smaller by the year as mainstays like Vietti’s Barolo Castiglione and the Odderos’ Barolo Classico have drifted northward in price and...
$44.99
2021 G.D. Vajra Barolo Bricco delle Viole
2021 G.D. Vajra Barolo Bricco delle Viole
The ‘value’ Barolo segment, once filled with a plethora of good choices under $50, has become smaller by the year as mainstays like Vietti’s Barolo Castiglione and the Odderos’ Barolo Classico have drifted northward in price and...
$109.99
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2021 Giulia Negri Barolo Serradenari
2021 Giulia Negri Barolo Serradenari
Meeting Giulia Negri in person is an unforgettable experience.  She has a smile that instantly lights up a room.  Many of you experienced that firsthand when she lit up your television sets while charming actor Stanley Tucci a few years ago on...
$99.99
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2021 Il Palazzotto Dolcetto di Diano d'Alba Sori Santa Cristina DOCG
Il Palazzotto
2021 Il Palazzotto Dolcetto di Diano d'Alba Sori Santa Cristina DOCG
Country: ItalyRegion: PiedmontAppellation(s): Dolcetto di Diano d’AlbaProducer: Paolo OliveroFounded: 1995Annual Production: 1,250 casesFarming: SustainablePaolo Olivero is a small farmer in the little hilltop village of Diano d’Alba, just...
$17.99
2021 Oddero Barolo Brunate PRE ARRIVAL
2021 Oddero Barolo Brunate PRE ARRIVAL
THE ODDERO CRUS The much-anticipated offer of the 2021 Oddero Barolos is here. These wines, from one of the most important vintages ever at this seminal La Morra cantina, will arrive this August, before any of the tariff shenanigans kick in, so...
$152.99
2021 Oddero Barolo Monvigliero PRE ARRIVAL
2021 Oddero Barolo Monvigliero PRE ARRIVAL
THE ODDERO CRUS The much-anticipated offer of the 2021 Oddero Barolos is here. These wines, from one of the most important vintages ever at this seminal La Morra cantina, will arrive this August, before any of the tariff shenanigans kick in, so...
$119.99
2021 Oddero Barolo Rocche di Castiglione PRE ARRIVAL
2021 Oddero Barolo Rocche di Castiglione PRE ARRIVAL
THE ODDERO CRUS The much-anticipated offer of the 2021 Oddero Barolos is here. These wines, from one of the most important vintages ever at this seminal La Morra cantina, will arrive this August, before any of the tariff shenanigans kick in, so...
$119.99
2021 Oddero Barolo Villero PRE ARRIVAL
2021 Oddero Barolo Villero PRE ARRIVAL
The much-anticipated offer THE ODDERO CRUSr of the 2021 Oddero Barolos is here. These wines, from one of the most important vintages ever at this seminal La Morra cantina, will arrive this August, before any of the tariff shenanigans kick in, so...
$119.99
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2021 Paolo Scavino Barolo Bricco Ambrogio
2021 Paolo Scavino Barolo Bricco Ambrogio
Big time wine!  Consider this the coming out party for this Roddi cuvee.  It’s a wonderful site with perfect exposure and its cooler climate makes for a more elegant, open and charming expression of Barolo.  Immaculate, stylish and a...
$68.00
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2021 Paolo Scavino Barolo Ravera 1.5L
2021 Paolo Scavino Barolo Ravera 1.5L
Wine Country: ItalyWine Subregion: PiemonteWine Sub-subregion: BaroloWine Varietal: Novello/Grinzane Cavour
$190.00
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2021 Paolo Scavino horizontal selection - All Six Cru wines
2021 Paolo Scavino horizontal selection - All Six Cru wines
A horizontal selection of one bottle each of the six Cru wines- not including the Riserva- is $500. 2021 Paolo Scavino Barolo Bric del Fiasc, Castiglione Falletto Pre-Arrival $108, magnums $250Still the cantina’s signature wine, this cuvee still comes...
$500.00
2021 Tenuta Luisa Cabernet Franc
2021 Tenuta Luisa Cabernet Franc
Friuli exists where East meets West, and the cities of Udine and Trieste are stunning cultural and architectural reminders that, depending on who wins what war, Friuli’s inclusion in Italy is more arbitrary than part of any great European master...
$21.99
2021 Trediberri Barolo Berri
2021 Trediberri Barolo Berri
I first visited Trediberri now seven years ago at the behest of our good friend Massimo Martinelli who had worked with this micro-cellar’s co-owner Nicola Oberto’s father Federico for over five decades in the cellars of nearby Renato Ratti...
$64.99
2021 Vietti Barbaresco Rocaglie
2021 Vietti Barbaresco Rocaglie
From a top site near the town of Barbaresco with a ton of history…used to be bottled as Masseria. Softer, suppler side of Barbaresco. Tres elegante! V95  
$144.00
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2021 Vietti Barolo Cerequio
2021 Vietti Barolo Cerequio
Post Arrrival $270, Pre-Arrival $243 9 bottlesFrom the Barolo side of Cerequio, vines average 37 years. Absolutely gorgeous with a ton of depth. Being older and less patient, given the choice between this and Brunate, I’d choose this.JS97, V97, RP96
$243.00
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2021 Vietti Barolo Lazzarito
2021 Vietti Barolo Lazzarito
Post Arrival $270, Pre-Arrival $243 12 bottlesOver the past few vintages, this has been my favorite! All of Serralunga’s crunchy tannins, but extraordinary fruit too. So elegant! JS 97, V95, RP97
$243.00
2021 Vietti Barolo Monvigliero
2021 Vietti Barolo Monvigliero
Post Arrrival $270, Pre-Arrival $243 9 bottles65-year old vines, another unbelievably sexy Monvig- open, pliant and incredibly generous. This is such a unique spot! JS98, V97, RP97
$243.00
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2021 Vite Colte Barbera d'Asti Superiore DOCG 'La Luna e i Falò'
2021 Vite Colte Barbera d'Asti Superiore DOCG 'La Luna e i Falò'
The Vite Colte winery is sort of hard to miss when one drives down Via Alba road from Castiglione Falletto into Barolo. Its sleek, award-winning modern architecture sits amongst the vines right at the fork in the road bisecting the Cannubi vineyard where...
$18.99
$17.99
2022 Bruno Giacosa Barbera d' Alba
2022 Bruno Giacosa Barbera d' Alba, Piemonte
Not every parcel in the Giacosas’ iconic Neive and Alba vineyards are suitable for growing Nebbiolo for their iconic Barbarescos and, on those few spots, for the most part located at the highest part of these sites, Barbera is the obvious choice...
$33.99
2022 Bruno Giacosa Nebbiolo d'Alba Valmaggiore
2022 Bruno Giacosa Nebbiolo d'Alba Valmaggiore
One of the grandest of the Grand Maestri of Piemonte’s ‘Greatest Generation’ of wine pioneers, Bruno Giacosa only began bottling his own wine in the 1960s, but his legendary perfectionism in the cellar and amazing instincts with regards...
$55.99
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2022 Cascina Fontana Langhe Nebbiolo
2022 Cascina Fontana Langhe Nebbiolo
#23 PRIMA’s ’24 for 24’ Best Wines Of The Year Mario Fontana is a very cool guy. His tiny cellar is a one-man show at the highest part of the Perno road in Monforte d’Alba, right next to Reppublica di Perno, one of our...
$42.99
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2022 Cascina Penna-Currado Barbera d'Alba 'Carra'
2022 Cascina Penna-Currado Barbera d'Alba 'Carra'
  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. But,...
$59.99
2022 Cascina Penna-Currado Dolcetto d'Alba 'Bricco Lago'
2022 Cascina Penna-Currado Dolcetto d'Alba 'Bricco Lago'
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...
$39.99
2022 Cornarea Roero Arneis
2022 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, what...
$31.99
$29.99
2022 Elio Grasso 'Educato' Langhe Chardonnay
2022 Elio Grasso 'Educato' Langhe Chardonnay
You wouldn’t think the noble Nebbiolo vineyards of Monforte d’Alba, right in the heart of the Barolo growing zone, would also be known for producing something as prosaic as Chardonnay…..but they are! The limestone and clay marls here...
$33.99
$31.99
2022 Francesco Rinaldi Grignolino
2022 Francesco Rinaldi Grignolino
A Light and Lively Red from Piedmont Discover the distinctive character of the 2022 Francesco Rinaldi Grignolino, a light and lively red wine that beautifully captures the essence of Piedmont’s unique terroir. Produced by the...
$23.99
2022 Margherita Otto Langhe Nebbiolo
2022 Margherita Otto Langhe Nebbiolo
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...
$44.99
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2022 Michele Chiarlo Barbera d'Asti 'Le Orme'
2022 Michele Chiarlo Barbera d'Asti 'Le Orme'
OK.  This wine, quite honestly, is the kind of value that could drive us out of business.  What I mean is that we would need to sell an awful lot of $12 Barbera to pay our rent here in Dublin.  But a deal is a deal and when one this good...
$13.99
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2022 Monchiero-Carbone ‘Cicu’ Roero Arneis
2022 Monchiero-Carbone ‘Cicu’ Roero Arneis
On the short list of the top Arneis made, this, the winery’s signature cuvee, is assembled from two separate vineyards in Roero- one in Vezza adjacent to the iconic Valmaggiore and the other, Renesio Incisa, in Canale.  This latter hill has...
$29.99
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2022 Stefano Massone Gavi Masera
2022 Stefano Massone Gavi Masera
Spring  has officially sprung!  Those looking for the perfect seasonal quaffer need look no further than Stefano Massone’s absolutely delicious Gavi!  All at once serious and a ton of fun to drink, Massone’s organically-farmed,...
$19.99
$17.99
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2022 Vietti Langhe Nebbiolo Perbacco
2022 Vietti Langhe Nebbiolo Perbacco
Price $32.99/CASE PRICE $360/$30 per bottle There’s Langhe Nebbiolo and there’s Langhe Nebbiolo.  Typically made to be consumed young and at its juicy best, many of the wines labeled Langhe Nebbiolo are made from younger vines,...
$32.99
2023 Bruno Giacosa Roero Arneis
2023 Bruno Giacosa Roero Arneis
$32.99, CASE PRICE $360/$30 PER BOTTLE Even with the modest boomlet of Arneis-based wines now available in the United States, the blue-chips are still the best, and Bruno Giacosa’s is still at the top of the heap when it comes to this...
$32.99
2023 Cornarea Roero Arneis
2023 Cornarea Roero Arneis
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...
$33.99
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2023 Damilano Langhe Arneis
2023 Damilano Langhe Arneis
Damilano is one of the oldest wineries in Barolo. The family business dates back to 1890 when Giuseppe Borgogno started cultivating and producing wine from the grapes from his own vineyards. Giuseppe  improved the general quality of the vinification...
$23.99
2023 Diego Morra Verduno Pelaverga
2023 Diego Morra Verduno Pelaverga
I am not entirely sure when it happened, but it sure did!  Pelaverga became a thing.  Whenever one of our favorites- G.B. Burlotto, Alessandia, Matteo Ascheri for three- arrives, it disappears almost immediately.  When exactly was this...
$34.99
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2023 Elio Grasso 'Educato' Chardonnay IGT Langhe Chardonnay
2023 Elio Grasso 'Educato' Chardonnay IGT Langhe Chardonnay
Ground shipping included on 6 bottles or more You wouldn’t think the noble Nebbiolo vineyards of Monforte d’Alba, right in the heart of the Barolo growing zone, would also be known for producing something as prosaic as Chardonnay…....
$40.00
$33.99
2023 Elio Grasso Dolcetto d'Alba
2023 Elio Grasso Dolcetto d'Alba
Sure, this Monforte d’Alba producer is justly famous for their two amazing single-parcel Barolos, both coming from the iconic Ginestra MGA but they do several other things extraordinarily well too.  You already probably familiar with Educato,...
$24.99
2023 Gini Soave Classico
2023 Gini Soave Classico
$21.99, $240/$20 CASE PRICE People of a certain age still cringe at the word ‘Soave’ as it conjures up the virtual ocean full of really bad wine once grown in the flats along the autostrada near Soave castle between Verona and Venice. ...
$24.99
$21.99
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2023 Giorgio Rivetti-La Spinetta Barbera d”Asti ‘Ca di Pian’
2023 Giorgio Rivetti-La Spinetta Barbera d”Asti ‘Ca di Pian’
Price $29.99/CASE PRICE $324/$27 per bottle Whatever Giorgio puts his mind to, it’s done, well, Giorgio style! And that means ‘very, very well!’ And the irrepressible Mr. Rivetti been putting his mind to this extraordinary...
$29.99
2023 Guido Porro Barbera d'Alba 'Vigna Santa Caterina'
2023 Guido Porro Barbera d'Alba 'Vigna Santa Caterina'
And now for the wine this particular Langhe head believes is the deal of the day, Guido Porro’s outstanding Barbera d’Alba!  The Porro name needs no introduction to longtime lovers of Langhe wines has his Serralunga d’Alba estate...
$24.99
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2023 Produttori del Barbaresco Langhe Nebbiolo
2023 Produttori del Barbaresco Langhe Nebbiolo
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...
$27.99
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2023 Vevey Marziano Blanc de Morgex et La Salle, Valle d'Aosta
2023 Vevey Marziano Blanc de Morgex et La Salle, Valle d'Aosta
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. ...
$24.99
2024 Antoniolo 'Bricco Lorella' Vino Rosato, Costa delle Sesia
2024 Antoniolo 'Bricco Lorella' Vino Rosato, Costa delle Sesia
PRICE $21.99, CASE PRICE $240/$20 per bottle One of the old time wineries of the Gattiara region of the Alto Piemonte, under an hour’s drive northwest of Milan-Malpensa airport, the Antoniolo family has been farming these impossibly inhospitable...
$21.99
2024 G. D. Vajra 'Clare J.C.' Langhe Nebbiolo
2024 G. D. Vajra 'Clare J.C.' Langhe Nebbiolo
Still $26.99, CASE SPECIAL $300/$25 PER BOTTLE The seventh vintage of this newfangled PRIMA favorite is in the house!  Intriguing, delicious and always sells out quickly…..  This is always one of our top wines of the year. "There is a...
$26.99
2024 G. D. Vajra Rosabella Rosato IGT Piemonte
2024 G. D. Vajra Rosabella Rosato IGT Piemonte
The Vajras, one of the first families of the Barolo region of the Langhe approach their production of Rosato with the same seriousness and meticulousness as they do their iconic reds.  At this exalted address, Rose is far more than the afterthought...
$21.99
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2024 Nervi-Conterno Rosato
2024 Nervi-Conterno Rosato
Even though we know it’s warm out there and the temptation to open this right away is irresistible, we recommend you save some too. We just drank our last 2021 at home. - JR From the alpine hills of the Alta Piemonte comes this absolutely...
$33.99
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Ostro Pinot Nero Brut Rose Spumante
Ostro
Ostro Pinot Nero Brut Rose Spumante
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...
$18.97