Named after Eugenio and Cinzia’s daughter, Lucia, the “Lu” Barolo is made of the best clusters from two of their best crus, seeing two years in foudre, six to twelve months in glass-lined cement vats, and another year resting in bottle before release. As herbaceous and complex as you could ask Barolo to be.
Made of fruit from the first vineyard Eugenio and Cinzia planted, this is Nebbiolo as you'd expect from Alba. Complex, structured, and delicious. This one deserves to be savoured.
The Tenute Fraune estate Amarone, in Valpolicella's historic centre of production, is a single-vineyard wine made with extended barrel aging. This wine is in a less primary fruit style than most Amarone and is fully dry.
From the single vineyard Morei and aged in amphora, this Teroldego wine is richer and denser than the Sgarzon. Dark fruit, aged balsamic vinegar, and mountain herbal aromas.
Sgarzon, at a higher altitude than Morei, gives a leaner and prettier expression of Teroldego, and Foradori likes to highlight the contrasting styles with separate bottlings after they receive the same winemaking process and amphora aging.
Cornelissen's classic and expressive Nerello Mascalese is pure Etna: ripe red fruit with strong tannins and earthy volcanic aromas. This is a great wine to lay down for a few years while you drink your Susucarus.
Cornelissen's classic and expressive Nerello Mascalese is pure Etna: ripe red fruit with strong tannins and earthy volcanic aromas. This is a great wine to lay down for a few years while you drink your bottle of the 2019 vintage.
A wine with its fair share of prestige, from a vineyard founded centuries ago, and enjoyed in historical courts across all of Europe. Jean-Louis Chave L'Hermitage is Rhône Syrah at its apex, regardless of vintage. That said, 2020 betters most, no small thing.
Recchione's Pinot Noirs are powerful wines from some of the rustic villages at the northern end of the Cote de Nuits. This wine, already with six years of age to it, has smoothed out some of its rough edges and now shows incredible depth and strong tannin for a special dinner.
Jeremy Recchione is a young negociant winemaker in Burgundy working with fruit from all over the region but his cellar is in Gevrey-Chambertin, the village where this wine is grown and raised. For most of his wines only a barrel or two is made every year. This Pinot Noir, from the Creux Brouillard vineyard, is deep and intoxicating with black fruit, spice, and gamey aromas.
