#9 on PRIMA's Top 25 Wines of 2025 Ground shipping included on 6 bottles or more Sure, we’re all waiting with bated breath for the much-anticipated 2021 Brunellos to start shipping next year but, in the meantime, what are we...

Launched in 2005, Mongrana has become one of Tuscany’s most dependable values. It’s a blend of Merlot, Sangiovese, Cabernet Sauvignon, Cabernet Franc, Syrah and Petit Verdot, aged 12 months in small oak...

#17 on PRIMA's Top 25 Wines of 2025 Free ground shipping on 6 bottles or more Le Cinciole isn’t one of those Chianti producers with centuries of history, but in just a few decades (their first harvest was 1991) they’ve ascended about as...

Very highly recommended. PRIMA’s history with this historic Gaiole-in-Chianti producer goes back decades, back when American John Dunkley and English winemaker Sean O’Callaghan had only just restored this ancient Chianti property into modern...

In case you’ve been hiding under a rock, the 2019 vintage in Montalcino is continuing to produce some amazing wines! We’ve been impressed across the board but have been, nonetheless, buying them selectively, looking for wines that show more than just raw...

From La Poderina, one of the best producers of Brunello di Montalcino comes a wine that is, most emphatically, not Brunello.  For one thing, the delicious savory Sangiovese in this wine is blended with 20% of the Bordelaise grape Petit Verdot, an...

Featuring a wine from Tenuta Bibbiano, located in Castellina in Chianti, is a real flash from the past for me. This well-known estate, one of the oldest in Tuscany, was part of the wine portfolio that our company imported and distributed when I was just...

This is an important Brunello arrival- to quote critic Kerin O’Keefe, it’s one of the best wines of the vintage!  2020 Baricci Brunello di Montalcino Montosoli $104.99 with shipping included on 6 bottles or more When it comes to...

The modern history of this iconic Chianti producer with the Etruscan name goes back only 50 years, but what a 50 years it has been!  This ancient estate high at the top of Gaiole was rejuvenated in the early 1970s by one John Dunkley, who famously...

Wine Country: Italy Wine Subregion: Lombardy Wine Varietal: Nebbiolo

Coltibuono’s Cetamura nails what everyday Tuscan wine should be: honest, juicy and vibrant. With bright cherry, gentle herbs and a whiff of terracotta, it’s pure Sangiovese joy straight from the hills of Gaiole. A brilliant pizza and pasta...

Wine Country: ItalyWine Subregion: TuscanyWine Sub-subregion: MontalcinoWine Varietal: SangioveseBin Location: enoteca top

Since so many of you asked about what Pacenti 2020 Brunellos would be available, I’ve put together a modest offer of three new arrivals including the Vecchie Vigne (old vines) cuvee, the bellwether Brunello Pelagrilli and a few precious cases of...

PRICE $44.99, CASE PRICE $480/$40 per bottle When it comes to vineyard aristocracy in Montalcino, a few places really stand out and those planted atop and around Montosoli Hill are perhaps the crème de la crème of the appellation...

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...

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...