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The Magpie's Guide to Montalcino (a book by Laura Gray)
Author Laura Gray has lived in Montalcino for many years, and thus is ideally placed to play the role of informational magpie, collecting history, anecdote, and local lore into this fascinating, charming, and frequently funny book. Not just another wine...
$27.00
Villa Guelpa 2020 Boca
Boca is one of the new vineyard sites for Daniele Dinoia, proprietor of Villa Guelpa. Quite subtle and restrained tannins with pretty and open aromatics. Cherry, raspberry, blood orange, rose petal, and pepper.
$44.99
Bera 2024 Moscato d'Asti Canelli
100 % Muscat Petit Grains from a beautiful organic vineyard, fermented with wild yeasts, minimal SO2 is used. We sell this Moscato d'Asti because it's one of the best we've ever tasted. A wine with finesse and complexity; layers of...
$22.99
Varnelli Amaro "Sibilla" 200mL (34%)
Named after the impressive mountain range in the Southwestern corner of the Marche, this spirit is a must-try for Amaro fans. The flavor profile definitely leans toward the drier, more herbaceous end of the spectrum and will seem quite bitter...
$25.99
Cinque Campi 2023 Spergola dell'Emilia Bora Lunga
A blend of mostly Spergola and a touch of Moscato Giallo from vines planted in 1948 in clay soils. Fermentation in steel and aging in concrete after 4-5 days of skin contact. While this is not a fully orange wine,...
$34.99
Sottimano 2023 Barbaresco Fausoni
This wine was my personal favorite from my tasting with Andrea Sottimano! It's profile was the most 'balsamic', not in the vinegar sense, but rather meaning a luscious profile with pine, spice, licorice, and fruit in perfect balance. Andrea feels...
$89.99
Sottimano 2023 Barbaresco Basarin
From 60-70 year old vines in the middle of the Basarin slope with more pure limestone and aged for 22 months in large oak casks. The 2023 vintage translates to friendly, ready to drink wines. I was drawn in by...
$89.99
Sottimano 2021 Barbaresco Curra
Curra is always released two years later than Andrea's other Barbarescos, spending more time in bottle. 55 to 75-year-old vines planted in Neive to an amphitheater-shaped vineyard rich in limestone and clay.
$109.99
Montesissa Emilio 2022 Rosissima Frizzante Rose
While this drinks very much like a Lambrusco rose, it is technically not! A blend of Barbera and Bonarda are the typical grapes for this style of sparkling rose in Piacenza, Emilia-Romagna. Barbera brings a bit of inky, earthy, soily...
$27.99
Pezzuto, Marco 2023 Roero Ciafre
Marco Pezzuto is a Roero based beekeeper, who humbly makes three wines in tiny quantities. He lands his goal of making wines which are "complex but drinkable". He practices polyculture, organics, and biodynamics for the sake of the bees and...
$59.99
Valfaccenda 2020 Roero Valmaggiore
Roero's sandy soils create wines of finesse and elegance. This special single vineyard called 'Valmaggiore' is very steep so Luca Faccenda and Carolina Roggero must do everything by hand! Valmaggiore was planted in 1947 and consists of the classic Roero...
$67.99
$59.99
Montecorneo 2022 Bianco di Sant'Andrea IGT Umbria
Harkening back to an old, regional style, the Bianco di Sant'Andrea is a blend of Grechetto, Malvasia and Trebbiano Spoletino. Winemaker Sara Gallina explains that in order to "solve the problem" of Grechetto, her grandparents' generation would employ other local...
$26.99
Negri, Giulia 2022 Barolo Serradenari
The Barolo Serradenari is from the upper part of the vineyard. It’s deeper and more structured than Tartufaia, with more pronounced tannin. Very forest-y, with tons of truffle, balsalm, black cherry, and cocoa, and super-complex both aromatically and on the...
$114.99
