Italy

Love it or hate it, tends to be the Amarone meme thrown out in wine circles. "To big," might be heard passed around the dinner table. If so, Bussol...

Tie your socks....mono-varietal Nero d'Avola from calcareous and clay vineyards. Succulent and powerful with loads of licorice and spice. The eart...

50% Barbera/50% Bonarda (aka Croatina). Named for an old farmhouse in the midst of the vineyard, Macchiona is La Stoppa's flagship red. It...

Giampiero acquired a parcel of 80-year-old Trebbiano Spoletino in the town of Pigge di Trevi several years back. Arising from a cooler microcl...

In Italian,"where dreams have no end" is loosely translated as a place where Chardonnay doesn't normally grow, but whatever, everyone else is doing...

From one of the most obscure areas in Piedmonte. Boca has 3 producers in this tiny DOC. This is 80% Nebbiolo, 10% Croatina and 10% Uva Rara. Soft, ...

This amaro has been made since 1868 from bitter herbs, roots and barks prepared over a wood fire and sweetened with honey.  Make sure to take a bot...

Majority Nebbiolo with some Vespolina. Soft and perfumed style -- perhaps the most of any major Nebbiolo producer. Tons of finely tuned berry notes...

This wine is sourced from the San Valentino vineyard in Montefalco the soil of which is dominated by clay. The vineyard is at 1300 feet altitude. ...

Very closed with undercurrents of truffle, rose and balsamic reduction. Tart, lean and berry freshness on the palate with bright acidity. 

Classic Barbaresco from a generous vintage with loads of fat fruit flavors, dawmed with tobacco, tar, violets and truffle. Super expressive for a y...

The Ferrandos only produce their legendary black-label Carema when the vintage allows for it, and it never comprises more than a fifth of their tot...

Pride of place goes to this special cru from Erbaluna, aged at least 24 months. With aromas of rose, violets, truffle, and tobacco. On the palate c...

The fourth generatin of the Oberto family to create this elegant Barolo, they are certified organic. In fact, they were regional pioneers in the mo...

Ferrando’s white-label Carema is arguably the most gorgeously elegant expression of Nebbiolo in existence, and this 2016 is a textbook version. F...

Punset comes from the Piedmontese word meaning “beautiful hill” or “peak”, to describe their lands emerging by the autumn fog they could admire fro...

Vinous 94+ Points: "Deep ruby with an amber rim. Brooding coffee and cocoa nuances complicate rich dark cherry and blackberry syrup on the nose. L...

Only produced in "super" vintages. Uses cofermenation of different grapes every year, aged 24 months in barrique, and then aged for another 12-...

The vines for Aldo’s red wines grow 30 kilometers from his home village of Alcamo, in a dry, hot microclimate not dissimilar to that of northern Af...

100% Teroldego, like all of the estate's reds, the fruit for Granato comes from the Campo Rotaliano plateau, a broad, flat, sunny, well-drained ex...

Grapes for the Riserva are sourced from the southernmost section of Baraggiola:  90% Nebbiolo and 10% Vespolina. The best of the Vespolina is selec...

New wine from one of the crus, that I haven't tried yet as this is the second vintage from these guys.