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,...

Free ground shipping on 2+ bottles JS 98pts Favia is what happens when an outstanding viticulturist, Annie Favia, meets and marries one of the Napa Valley’s most accomplished winemakers in Andy Erickson. It started when the power...

Farming around ten hectares in four different Barbaresco MGAs in Neive and Treiso, this 75-year-old estate is a pioneer in organic agriculture in the region and takes a very old-school approach to bottling their three MGA-specific Barbarescos, focusing...

The Prisoner was inspired by the “mixed blacks” first made by the Italian immigrants who originally settled in Napa Valley. The Prisoner is now the most recognized Napa Valley red blend, leading the resurgence of interesting blends by...

Buy 12 or more and pay only $26.00 each All located within a few kilometers of each other in A Monti in Gaiole-in-Chianti, San Giusto a Rentennano, Il Palazzino, Badia a Coltibuono and Rocca di Montegrossi form a quartet of elite Chianti...

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...

Free ground shipping on 6+ bottles The sunstruck harvest of 2023 provided the power behind the punch of the amazingly seductive Siro Pacenti Rosso di Montalcino, long one of the category’s very best producers. Weighing in at an impressive 15.5%...

James Suckling, 95 points: Extremely perfumed and fresh with dried flowers, cherries, strawberries. Medium-to full-bodied with an oily texture and lovely soft tannins. Lots of spices and fruit. Earth, too. This uses about 30% whole-berry fermentation...

Free ground shipping on 6+ bottles The 2023 Chianti Classico, coming as it does from a much cooler harvest than the 2022, is beautifully done: dark and heady with obvious aromatic lift and lots of stuffing. It highlights the more svelte, pure...

Treana Winery is a part of Hope Family Wines, a renowned producer in Paso Robles known for crafting wines that reflect the unique terroir of the region. Treana focuses on producing bold, approachable wines that showcase the rich soils and warm...

Clara Concejo is the dynamic entrepreneur behind Vega Clara, the small but mighty estate located in the village of Quintanilla de Onesimo in the Ribera del Duero appellation, the most famous wine of the Valladolid municipality and one of Spain’s...

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...

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,...

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...

Nero d’Avola, a red wine variety that is planted throughout the southern regions of Italy and the islands of Sicily and Sardinia, has the potential to be a ‘superstar’ among grape types, with a noble character that challenges Syrah and...