New Arrival Returning Favorites - Italy - July 2026
New Arrival Returning Favorites - Italy - July 2026
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Casaretti 2025 Chiaretto di Bardolino Rosa dei Casaretti
This lovely rosato is 70% Corvina, 20% Rondinella, and 10% Molinara, from organically tended vines on the Eastern shore of Lake Garda in the Veneto. Soils are rocky with clay. 12-36 hour maceration before natural fermentation and aged in stainless...
$22.99
Casaretti 2025 Biancosale
A blend of Garganega and Riesling Italico (Welschriesling). Super chiseled, with great acidity, lemon, stones, and a slight spritz. Low alcohol and super refreshing.
$22.99
Casaretti 2024 Veneto Bianco Brol di Calmasino
This wine is mostly Garganega, plus 10% Cortese, from organically tended vines on the shores of Lake Garda in the Veneto There is a five day maceration on the skins before a soft pressing. Fermented naturally in 500L tonneau barrel....
$26.99
Casaretti 2024 Bardolino Classico
A blend of mostly Corvina and Rondinella from the Eastern shores of Lake Garda. The soils here contain glacial rocks and bring an undercurrent of white pepper to the top notes of raspberry, cherry, and violets. Light bodied and easy...
$22.99
Controcorrente 2024 Sulle Bucce
A blend of Carricante, Cataratto, Grillo & Trebbiano all macerated on the skins separately then blended. Apple, pear, apricot, and green tea tannins.
$35.99
Controcorrente 2024 Pet Nat Vino Preliminaire Rosato
All Nerello Mascalese, with a beautiful peachy, blush color, bright acidty, and nice creaminess from 12 months on the lees. So fun!
$35.99
Zanotto NV Col Fondo Rosso
A delicious sparkling red! Mostly Marzemino with a bit of Cabernet Franc. The first notes are plum, cranberry and cherry with a bit of pine and spice in the finish. This sparkling wine finishes bone dry and is super crisp.
$23.99
Keber, Edi 2023 Collio Bianco
Edi was part of the push for a return to native grapes in Friuli along with Gravner and Radikon. Going even further to the celebration of native grapes, he only makes one wine- a blend of Ribolla Gialla (acidity), Friulano...
$36.99
Occhipinti 2025 Grillo DOC Sicilia Serracalcara
New wine from Arianna Occhipinti! 100% Grillo. Arianna planted the vines for this brand-new bottling in 2022 from cuttings from her plot of Grillo in the contrada of Santa Margherita in Chiaramonte Gulfi, at the foot of the Iblei mountains...
$62.99
Ciolli, Damiano 2024 Silene Cesanese di Olevano Romano Superiore
Cesanese from the volcanic soils around Lake Bolsena in Lazio. Medium bodied, savroy fruit profile, graphite, herbs, and a smoky finish.
$28.99
Casa Setaro 2025 Campanelle Falanghina (Arrives 8/18)
Pretty florals, salty, smoky minerality, and a nutty savoriness in the finish with a silky texture. Linear, fresh, easy to love summer wine! These Falanghina vines are planted at 250 meters altitude within Vesuvio National Park. It ferments in stainless steel...
$27.99
Occhipinti, Andrea 2025 Alea Rosa
Andrea Occhipinti's 2025 Alea Rosa is a wine grown on the volcanic soils surrounding Lake Bolsena in Lazio. The color is electric pink, with a fresher profile than years past of raspberry, strawberry, rose petal, and hibiscus tea. The volcanic...
$27.99
Bea, Paolo 2024 Cotidie Umbria Rosso
“Cotidie” Umbria Rosso: “Cotidie” (“quotidian” in Latin) was conceived as an “everyday” wine for its relatively easygoing and drinkable spirit. The methodology behind it feels outré today but would have been common practice for the ancients to whom its Latin...
$69.99
Lamoresca 2024 Nerocapitano
Pizza wine!! Light, fresh, strawberry, tomato leaf, perfect. Pure joy in a glass. Named Nerocapitano because the local dialect name for Frappato is Capitano Nero. 100% Frappato. 14 days of maceration on the skin in vertical “tini”, the skin gets...
$34.99
$29.99
Monte Bernardi 2024 Chianti Classico Retromarcia
The 2024 vintage of Michael Schmelzer's Chianti Classico is fresh, fun, juicy, and light-medium bodied. A pop of candied cherry and herbs make this lovely with a slight chill and served next to your favorite grilled foods.
$29.99
Cornelissen, Frank 2024 Terre Siciliane Etna Susucaru Rosso
Our entry-level red wine is a field-blend of mostly Nerello Mascalese (85%) with other local varietals from all our vineyards: Nerello Capuccio, Allicante Boushet, Minnella and Uva Francesa. Our Susucaru Rosso expresses Etna as produced in a more traditional way...
$29.99
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
Trediberri 2025 Dolcetto Dogliani Bricco Molea
Sourced from the Bricco Mollea vineyard in the Commune of Vicoforte at the furthest southern border of the Langhe. South-facing at 600 meters in elevation. The soil is a mix of Marne di Paroldo (“Paroldo Marl”) – blue-gray silty marls layered...
$32.99
Negri, Giulia 2024 Langhe Nebbiolo Pian delle Mole
Giulia says, “The challenge with this wine is to respect the big personality of the Nebbiolo variety—long and full in the glass—but also to have it be very drinkable.” It is a challenge she meets with ease, providing us with...
$39.99
Le Ragnaie 2022 Rosato
All Sangiovese coming from 5 different vineyards. A short maceration followed by 24 months of aging in large French barrels reveals a beautiful rosato with layers of strawberry, citrus, and cherry blossom. Very fresh and light, sip this with the...
$44.99
Bianchi 2022 Luminae Erbaluce Bianco
100% Erbaluce grown in the Sizzano village production area from one of my favorite Alto Piemonte producers. It rests for 4 months in stainless steel tanks on the noble lees, extracting structure and character. It is bottled in the spring...
$14.99
