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Featured Articles

Drinking Old Wine
Many of our favorite wines have been old bottles. While the great majority of wines are made to be consumed within a couple of years of their production, the relatively few wines that are intended to age can offer absolutely magical tasting experiences. We are pleased to offer older wine

Decanting Wine
The following will GREATLY enhance your pleasure with a bottle of older wine. It may sound like a hassle, but it’s really not so bad, and well worth the trouble. Basic Wine Decanting 101 There is nothing complicated or mysterious about this process; just follow these simple instruct

New from the Jura: Les Granges Paquenesses!
Loreline Laborde is living the fantasy many city dwellers have during rush hour: fleeing the city to live a quiet life in harmony with nature. After completing her formal studies in viticulture, Loreline left the bustling city of Montpellier to make wine in the undulating foothills of Tourmont, a vi

Broc Cellars Rocks!
Based out of Berkeley, California, Broc Cellars is an exciting winery, headed by winemaker Chris Brockway, that focuses on offbeat wines from intriguing and often much older vineyards. Their winemaking process uses only native yeasts with minimal doses of SO2 at bottling. These wines

Bountiful Bubbles from Bérêche
With the holidays upon us and gatherings of friends and family at hand, we are happy to remind you of the joys of Champagne at the table. New releases from our favorite growers are streaming in and we're positively giddy, as we taste the newest vintages and cuvées. One of the most exciting producers

Nervi: Spanna, Gattinara, and more

Spanna is the local name for Nebbiolo in Alto Piemonte. In practice a small amount of other grapes - Bonarda, Croatina, and Vespolina - were often blended with Spanna (and the same was true in Gattinara, Ghemme, and the other districts of the region). Those grapes enrich and soften Nebbiolo, making the wines appear less structured than Barolo and Barbaresco, but they live as long.

The "Riserva del Titolare" can be translated as the "Owner's Reserve". What's implied is a selection that's given some extra aging, and therefore something that the Titolare considered special, but I cannot find any written definition of the term. I've tasted a couple of examples of the Riserva del Titolare, and remember them as being similar to Nervi Riserva, which show a bit more weight and depth in comparison with the straight Gattinara.

Nervi is one of the handful of producers in Gattinara who survived the challenges of economic disaster (as caused by war, depression, flight to the city, and a slump in demand). Nervi has been in the news lately because Roberto Conterno (Giacomo Conterno, in Barolo) purchased Nervi in 2018. That's a fine bit of publicity, but it doesn't change the fact that old vintages of Nervi are marvelous wines, on a par with the region's short list of the historically best producers (Antoniolo, Travaglini, Vallana). For the finest old Alto Piemonte wine, see, in particular, Nervi 1964, 1967, and 1974. Jamie Wolff

Nervi, Luigi 1961 Gattinara