#6 on PRIMA's Top 25 Wines of 2025 FREE GROUND SHIPPING ON 6 BOTTLES OR MORE We have a limited amount of Arianna’s much-coveted varietal Frappato from two high-altitude, biodynamically farmed sites averaging close to 50 years of age. Arianna...

Named after the country road that runs past her now-iconic winery, Occhipinti’s SP68 Rosso is as off the beaten path as its namesake highway. It beautifully shows what distinction Vittoria is capable of: wines of elegance, structure and nicely...

#19 on PRIMA's Top 25 Wines of 2025 Free ground shipping on 6+ bottles! Let’s go far south, all the way to the slopes of Mount Etna for Alberto Graci’s delightful rosato of Nerello Mascalese. Graci is located...

Rosé is great the whole year around and there’s always a good one on the table at Thanksgiving at our house. One of our favorites from Italy just came back into stock—the extraordinary dry rosato from the Amalfi...

$44.99 with shipping included on 6 bottles or more 62-year old Salvo Foti is one of the Etna wine growing region’smost important figures.  So important, you could say, without Salvo’s benevolent assistance, some of the most important...

Cult wine and Sicilian wines not from Mount Etna are rarely used in the same sentence but, when it comes to Arianna Occhipinti, the term ‘cult’ may actually apply. A generation of young sommeliers and wine professionals consider her as one of...

We already know about Alberto Graci’s wonderful Etna Rosato—it was one of PRIMA’s ‘Top Wines of the Year’ in 2025 and an absolute delight. But, let’s face it, Graci is far better-known for his marvelous Etna Rosso...

Contrade di Taurasi is owned by Sandro Lonardo, a local schoolteacher, and his wife Enza. They bottle Irpinia Aglianico, Taurasi, and small amounts of a white wine made from Grecomusc’, an indigenous white variety. Their vineyards are all exposed...

Mastroberardino, the iconic producer from Campania, is justifiably recognized as the property that single-handedly brought the appellation back to life after WWII and raised the quality and reputation of the entire region in the process. Their portfolio...

Wine Country: ItalyWine Subregion: Sicily

Michele Perillo is another excellent small farmer and winemaker. He comes from Castelfranci, in the south-east corner of the appellation, about half an hour away from the town of Taurasi itself. His first bottled vintage was 1999, before which he sold...

I remember, back sometime in the mid-1990s, driving from Piemonte to Tucsany with Marco  de Grazia, then the instigator, impresario and importer of the ‘Barolo Boys.’  Even with the taste of the last Barolo we had enjoyed together...

One of the best producers in the fast-growing appellation of Etna is one of its oldest, Passopisciaro (pahs-so-pishi-aro), translated as ‘the ‘Fisherman’s Path.’ The property was purchased and developed by Andrea Franchetti, owner...

Franchetti’s real gems are the single-site reds he bottles called ‘contrade.’ Each Contrada is its own terroir, a lot like a single vineyard but, while a little broader geographically, it’s way more specific, as each spot has a...

SOLID CASE SPECIAL $324 ($27 per bottle), shippedFree ground shipping on 6+ bottles Clelia Romano’s broad, aromatic and complete Fiano di Avellino continues to make scores of new friends consistently here at PRIMA Vini. Long a fixture in our late...

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...