100% Pallagrello nero, a grape grown almost exclusively in Campania. Noted for cherry on the nose and palate, with pepper and spice characteristics, and tannins enabling the wine to be laid down for a time.
The Rosso di Valtellina is Arpepe's introduction to the perfect Nebbiolo wines of the Alps. Made at the Northern end of Lombardy at high elevations, this is the wine that sees the lightest treatment of oak and lightest aging.
This promising first bottling has a fragrant nose, with cassis, cherry, and a slight tobbaco edge on the palate, and fine tannins balanced by a lively acidity.
COS pretty much single-handedly revitalized Cerasuolo di Vittoria when it was virtually extinct, and it is now the only DOCG in Sicily. The wine has bold red fruit, fine-grained tannins, and is also herbal/earthy. Can a wine be both sophisticated and rustic? If so, this is.
A tiny bottling of Nebbiolo from the 1.5 hectare Roccabella vineyard right outside La Morra. Stainless steel and used barrels keep this wine silky smooth and exquisite on the palate.
Lacrima is a strongly rose-scented Red grape indigenous to the Marche region that usually makes a light aperitif wine. Natalino's grapevines are old and only give him one bunch per year, so he makes them count with a strong and intense Red wine.
The same grapes as the regular Morei, but is racked out of the first amphora, skins removed, into a second, cylindrical amphora for another year of aging.
The same grapes as the regular Sgarzon, but is racked out of the first amphora, skins removed, into a second, cylindrical amphora for another year of aging.
Rarely do you find a winemaker so dedicated to resurrecting a single grape varietal as Foradori is with Teroldego. This wine gives a pure vision of one of Italy's great Alpine red grapes from a blended selection of her vineyards. Amazing steak wine!
From the same prime parcels as the Joaquin 'Della Societa' Taurasi. Despite not being eligible for that prestigious designation, 2020 was still a great growing season in Taurasi, making 'I Viaggiatori' ("the travellers") an excellent wine for the cellar.
"The concentrated and brilliant ruby red colour is the prelude to the bouquet of violet and red and black berries that express themselves in virtuous alliance with spicy and balsamic scents. On the palate it expresses itself tonic and powerful, with dynamism and elegance." - translation from the Italian
Noah's Bramaterra is a great example of Alto Piemonte's potential to step out of Barolo and Barbaresco's shadow. This selection of Nebbiolo, Croatina, and Vespolina spends two years in barrel and another year in bottle before release and is beautifully perfumed and complex.
