A fruit-forward Burgundian Pinot, avoiding the forest floor in favor of cherry and just-underripe plum, a saline minerality, and softly lingering tannins.
Intense Red wine from the slopes of Sicily's Mount Etna. Nerello Mascalese grapes showing leather, tar, roses, and black fruit aromas in this light-coloured wine that packs a punch.
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!
Willy got his expertise first working wines in Clos du Moulin aux Moines to Auxey-Durresses, where he developed a rich understanding of the land of Cote de Beaune. Now he and his lifelong friend are making a name for themselves with AMI, In conversion to biodynamic farming, the wines come from chemical free, healthy ecosystems.
Delicate vinification in fiberglass teases out pulpy fruit with pepper and flowers. "Spicy and rustic notes, such as bay leaf, pepper, cocoa, chili pepper, grape and sap." The name is a play on 'la déesse', meaning 'the goddess'.
Umbrian Sangiovese blended with 25% Montepulciano, and 15% Sagrantino with a pleasing farm-fresh vegetal sense of umami and a refreshing hint of salinity. Montefalco, deemed one of the 'Borghi più belli d'Italia', is a Romanesque, Gothic hill town in Umbria. The Bea familly estate has been local farmers here since the 1500's.
