Tasting Notes: Corte Sant’Alda’s Valpolicella Ca’ Fiui marries robust sunny fruit with hillside lift and elegance. Notes of wild berry, sour cherry, and sweet tobacco are buoyed by a delightful minerality. With... Read More
Tasting Notes: The Felsina Chianti Classico Berardenga shows a deep ruby red color in the glass. The nose is dense with fine and elegant aromas dominated by wild berries, along with array of spice and wood notes. This follows... Read More
Tasting Notes: A beguiling, truly stunning wine, the Fontodi Chianti Classico Gran Selezione Vigna del Sorbo is at the top of its class. A wine of pure power and class, loaded with dark notes of cassis, leather, dried herbs, wood... Read More
Tasting Notes: Chiesamonti is a 1.3-hectare parcel adjacent to the town of San Felice in Castelnuovo Berardenga, with a stonier soil profile and a lower clay content than Giovanna’s home turf. The vines, now over a decade... Read More
Tasting Notes: This succulent rose is loaded with pure red fruit, with cherry pit, raspberry and red plum notes dominant on the nose and a sleek texture and wet stone finish. This Rosato expresses freshness and minerality perfectly... Read More
Tasting Notes: Produced from 120-year-old vines, stomped by foot, fermented in vats made of lava stone, the Masseria del Pino has captured Mt. Etna in a bottle. Smoke, wild-berry brambles, spice box and savory minerals with tannins... Read More
Estate History: Mirafiore was founded in 1858 by Emanuele Mirafiore, son of Italy's King Vittorio Emanuele II. With its range of unique wines, highly distinctive in origin, character and personality, by the end of the century... Read More
Tasting Notes: The Montesecondo Tin Sangiovese is a biodynamic expression of Tuscany's most famous grape. The fruit comes from two vineyards in the San Casciano zone of Chianti Classico. The original family vineyard, generally... Read More
Tasting Notes: The 2020 Olek Bondonio Barbaresco Roncagliette is supple and nuanced with hints of licorice, red roses and wet earth. The palate has red berries framed by a bright acidity with tobacco and a touch of mint on the... Read More
Tasting Notes: The Olek Bondonio Barbaresco Starderi is well balanced with dried herbs, sweet pipe tobacco and cherries all melding together beautifully. Sourced from a small parcel of forty year old vines planted in the Starderi... Read More
Tasting Notes: This skin-contact 'orange' wine is from old vine Trebbiano Spoletino. It spends 35 days on its skins after pressing, followed by 210 additional days on the gross lees, resulting in a deep amber color, tannic... Read More
Tasting Notes: The Tenuta di Carleone Uno is the flagship wine of the estate produced from the best Sangiovese grapes. It sees 18 months of aging in a mix of tonneaux barrels (about 10% new), cement, and stainless steel. The wine... Read More
Tasting Notes: The Tenuta di Carleone Uno is the flagship wine of the estate produced from the best Sangiovese grapes. It sees 18 months of aging in a mix of tonneaux barrels (about 10% new), cement, and stainless steel. The wine... Read More
Tasting Notes: The Valfaccenda Roero Rosso is from organic Nebbiolo grapes vines that come from Loreto, sand-loam soils planted in 1998 that are east-facing, Mompellini, sand-loam-clay soils, planted in 2008, west-facing, and... Read More
Tasting Notes: Scirone, Villa Venti’s reinterpretation of Famoso grapes, emerges from a natural fermentation in Georgian amphorae and an extended maceration process. Its bouquet intertwines fruity, floral, spicy, and earthy... Read More