Lower ABV From northeast of Turin, on the road to Valtellina, this shows a mountain wine character in a blend of 75% Barbera and 25% Merlot done in steel. It’s cool and fresh with darkly ripe, still tangy, fruit like redcurrant... Read More
“Ripasso” means a fully dry Valpolicella wine is poured over the pressing from Amarone where the remaining sugar there triggers a second fermentation that enriches and darkens the wine. Here it added intensity to the... Read More
I never met Andrea Franchetti, who died in December 2021 at the age of 72. But this wine sums up everything I’ve read and heard from his partners at Passopisciaro. “Poetic” and “wildly visionary”... Read More
A blend of classic Sicilian grapes - Nero d'Avola and Frappato - loaded with Cerasuolo or cherry charcater. As Vinous says in the 91 point review, Peppery and floral, the 2022 Cerasuolo di Vittoria wafts up with a spicy blend... Read More
Nicola Argamante and his wife, Loredana, make around 7,000 cases of wine per year from their 30 acres of vines near Monforte d’Alba. This is their daily drinker, mainly Dolcetto plus splashes of Nebbiolo, Barbera, Albarossa... Read More
Organic/Bio You may have thought you wanted to drink a Bolgheri “super-Tuscan,” but somehow what you’re really after was made a few hours drive further up the Italian coast. I have no idea what tempted someone... Read More
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