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Michele Chiarlo 2022 Palás Barolo
Italian Red
Garnet-red colour with bright hues accompanies ethereal, balsamic notes, small fruit, liquorice and tobacco. The Nebbiolo is broad and harmonious, with silky tannins integrated into the structure. Fermentation takes place in steel with thirteen to fourteen days of skin contact and soft cap wetting. The wine completes malolactic conversion in steel and spends twenty-four months in large oak casks before bottle refinement.
Oddero 2018 Langhe Nebbiolo
Italian Red
Ruby-red colour accompanies violets and red fruit. The Nebbiolo has tannins that recall the earth of the Langhe. Fruit comes from an east-facing two-hectare vineyard at 200 metres, planted at four thousand vines per hectare. Selected clusters ferment with about fifteen days of skin contact and complete malolactic conversion. The wine then matures in oak barrels of different sizes for twelve to eighteen months.
Voerzio Martini 2020 Ciabot della Luna Langhe Nebbiolo
Italian Red
Ruby colour with purple reflections accompanies high-toned red fruit, floral, earthy and herbal notes. Acidity and superfine tannins sit alongside fruit flavours. The perfume is delicate, fine and intense, while the taste is full and appropriately tannic. Fruit comes from the Langhe in Piedmont, and the wine is made entirely from Nebbiolo under Langhe DOC.
Tenuta Mazzolino 2024 Terrazze Pinot Nero
Italian Red
This Pinot Nero comes from Lombardy. The estate calls it its village expression and describes it as the whole hill in one bottle. The wine matures for six months in stainless steel and carries 13 percent alcohol. It is produced in Italy under the Pinot Nero dell'Oltrepò Pavese DOC. The winery is located in Corvino San Quirico.
Michele Chiarlo 2022 Tortoniano Barolo
Italian Red
Garnet colour with luminous hues accompanies rose petals, juniper berries and fine spices. The Nebbiolo is ample and structured, with silky tannins, elegance and persistence. Fermentation takes place in steel, with fifteen to eighteen days of skin contact and gentle wetting of the cap. Ageing lasts at least three years, including eighteen to twenty-four months in medium-sized oak casks.
Poderi Colla 2021 Campo Romano Langhe Pinot Nero
Italian Red
Delicate garnet colour accompanies griotte cherry, tobacco, spices and ripe fruit. Freshness, roundness and integrated tannins sit within a long, persistent profile. Further notes of crushed cherry, rose, tar, pomegranate, vanilla and liquorice add detail. The Pinot Nero comes from a vineyard planted in the late nineteen seventies and carries thirteen percent alcohol. The texture is smooth and velvety.
Marchesi di Barolo 2019 Barolo della Tradizione
Italian Red
Garnet and ruby colour accompany cinnamon, wormwood, liquorice, wild rose and Virginia tobacco. The Nebbiolo is full and elegant, with soft, enveloping tannins and a long spicy finish. Fruit comes from calcareous clay with sandstone, quartz sand and silt. Traditional maceration precedes maturation in large oak casks, followed by further time in bottle. The wine carries fourteen percent alcohol.
E. Pira & Figli 2021 Langhe Nebbiolo
Italian Red
Ripe raspberry, cherry, earth, sun-dried hay and liquorice accompany a darker mineral note. The Nebbiolo has a rich, broad profile with firm structure and a long, tactile finish. Fermentation and maceration take place in stainless steel for six to ten days. The wine then spends twelve months in French barriques before light filtration. Alcohol is fourteen percent.
Borgogno 2022 Era Ora Langhe Riesling
Italian White
Petrol, quince and roasted peach appear with soft floral notes in a bone-dry Riesling. Yellow stone fruit and bright acidity accompany a wet-stone finish. Lime, apricot, yellow plum, hawthorn and menthol add further detail. Fermentation takes place mainly in steel, with a smaller oak portion, followed by time on fine lees, in steel and in bottle.
Valentina Cubi 2006 Morar Amarone della Valpolicella Classico
Italian Red
Intense red-garnet colour accompanies ripe fruit and spice in a full-bodied Amarone. Corvina, Corvinone and Rondinella come from rocky hillsides around Fumane and San Pietro in Cariano. Grapes are selected by hand. Fermentation takes place in conical stainless-steel tanks at a controlled temperature with daily pigeage, followed by several months in wooden barrels and further bottle ageing. Alcohol is sixteen percent.
Cesari 2011 Amarone della Valpolicella Classico
Italian Red
Forest floor, dried dark fruit, cedar and smoke accompany dried black cherry, baked plum, ground pepper and clove. Firm and full-bodied, the red carries solid, fine-grained tannins. Raisined fruit, cherry, vanilla and spice also appear within a warm, velvety profile. The blend is seventy-five percent Corvina, twenty percent Rondinella and five percent Molinara. The finish is persistent.
De Fermo 2021 Launegild Chardonnay
Italian White
Pear peel, banana, apricot, chamomile, herbs and straw meet a saline note in this Chardonnay. Freshness and smoothness remain in balance. Fruit grows between the Adriatic and Gran Sasso on limestone and clay soils. Soft pressing precedes spontaneous indigenous-yeast fermentation in oak without temperature control, followed by twelve months in tonneau. Straw-yellow colour completes the profile.
Piero Busso 2023 Langhe Nebbiolo
Italian Red
Ruby colour accompanies fruit and earthy notes in a gently structured Nebbiolo. Most fruit comes from Le Casasse, with a smaller portion from young vines in Gallina. Stainless-steel fermentation is followed by a brief period in wood. The vineyard sources are in Barbaresco, and the wine has lifted fragrance, freshness and a supple mouthfeel. The younger vineyard material has a more open aspect.
La Stoppa 2003 Stoppa Cabernet Sauvignon
Italian Red
Mature fruit and spices accompany a red with soft structure and good acidity. The blend is forty percent Cabernet Sauvignon, forty percent Merlot and twenty percent other Bordeaux varieties. Fermentation uses native yeasts, followed by roughly thirty days of maceration. The wine spends fourteen months in barriques and carries fifteen percent alcohol. Its regional origin is Emilia-Romagna in northern Italy.
Tolaini 2021 Vigna Montebello Sette Chianti Classico Gran Selezione
Italian Red
Cherry fruit, tobacco, leather, liquorice and spice accompany a Sangiovese with tannins, acidity, structure and a long finish. Fruit comes from a north-facing, two-hectare plot in Castelnuovo Berardenga. After selection and destemming, whole berries ferment for forty days in French-oak vessels. The wine matures for twenty-four months in large oak casks and another six months in concrete tanks.
La Spinona 2011 Barbaresco Bricco Faset
Italian Red
Black cherry, plum, clove and new-leather notes accompany a dark, powerful red with an open-knit profile. Nebbiolo from the three-hectare Faset vineyard is softly crushed after sorting and destemming. Fermentation lasts twelve to fifteen days after a one-day cold maceration, followed by natural malolactic fermentation. The wine then spends nine months in large Allier and Slavonian-oak casks and twelve months in bottle.
Cantina Valpolicella Negrar 2015 Montigoli Amarone della Valpolicella
Italian Red
An intense, dense ruby colour accompanies Amarena cherry and lightly smoked notes. The wine is powerful, with broad tannins and candied fig detail. Corvina, Corvinone and Rondinella form the blend, and the finished red carries 15.5 percent alcohol. The broader cuvée profile includes black-fruit compote, sour cherry, vanilla, tobacco, liquorice and spice, with structured, velvety tannins and a long finish.
Guerrieri Rizzardi 2012 3 Cru Amarone della Valpolicella Classico
Italian Red
Ripe fruit and sweet spice sit with a compote-like character. The dry red is full and rich, with a round texture, balanced oak and freshness. Corvina, Corvinone, Rondinella and Barbera comprise the blend, with Rondinella accounting for ten percent. The wine carries sixteen percent alcohol and is sealed under cork. It comes from Veneto's Valpolicella Classico zone.
Nicolis 2009 Amarone della Valpolicella Classico
Italian Red
Ripe black cherry, spiced plum, blue flowers, baking spice and new leather accompany blackberry, crushed black raspberry, raisin, liquorice and dark chocolate. Firm tannins have a velvety texture, and the finished wine carries fifteen percent alcohol. This Veneto red wine is made as the estate's regular Classico Amarone bottling, separate from its Ambrosan Amarone release.
Michele Castellani 2006 Colle Cristi Amarone della Valpolicella Classico
Italian Red
Kirsch and prune sit with aromatic tobacco, leather, graphite and dark-chocolate notes. The tannins are compact, and the finish is long and smoky. Cooked fruit and spice accompany a velvety texture and full body. The process begins with selected harvested grapes, followed by drying, destemming and crushing before a slow fermentation and subsequent cellar maturation.
Produttori del Barbaresco 2020 Pajè Riserva Barbaresco
Italian Red
Ruby red in colour, with fresh red fruit and herbal hints. Complex flavours combine bright fruit, lively acidity and a pleasantly tannic finish. Forest berry, mint, clove and new leather are also present, alongside red cherry, raspberry compote and liquorice. The 7.5-acre vineyard lies on a lower ridge near Asili, where cool wind from the Tanaro River reaches calcium-rich soil.
Giuseppe Mascarello 2020 Bricco Mirasole Dolcetto d’Alba
Italian Red
Deep ruby-red tends toward violet. The profile is winey, strong, fruity and varietal, with a very dry, typically bitterish taste and an intense, elegant, well-balanced character. Fruit comes from a vineyard in Castiglione Falletto. Selected, thinned estate fruit undergoes traditional floating-cap fermentation at controlled temperature, followed by stabilization in an inert tank without oak. Bottling occurs one year after harvest.
Tenuta Casenuove 2018 Chianti Classico Riserva
Italian Red
Deep, brilliant ruby in colour. The bouquet includes violet, red fruit and black fruit, with morello cherry and blueberry. The palate is full, enveloping, elegant and sinuous, with dense, silky tannins and acidity. Selected fruit spends twelve months in cement, large Slavonian-oak casks and new and used barriques, followed by twenty-four months of bottle ageing.
Tedeschi 2020 Marne 180 Amarone della Valpolicella
Italian Red
Fruit from hillside Valpolicella vineyards is dried for about four months in a controlled environment. Maturation lasts three years in Slavonian oak, followed by at least six months in bottle. Aromatic freshness, substantial structure, balance and good acidity characterize the wine. The designation refers to marl soils and vineyard exposures running from southwest to southeast across a span of 180 degrees.
Agostina Pieri 2017 Brunello di Montalcino
Italian Red
Clusters are selected by hand in the vineyard and again on sorting tables in the cellar. Fermentation takes place in temperature-controlled stainless steel, followed by twenty-two days of maceration. The wine spends twenty-four months in wood, divided between 600-litre demi-muids and larger French-oak casks, then six months in stainless steel and eighteen months in bottle. The blend is entirely Sangiovese from two south-facing vineyards.
Enrico Serafino 2019 Picotener Langhe Nebbiolo
Italian Red
Bright red colour with violet shades accompanies rose, violet, cherry, plum and fine spice. The wine is fine, velvety and fresh, ranging from medium-bodied to structured, with delicate tannins and a long, persistent mineral finish. Made entirely from Nebbiolo, it ferments in temperature-controlled stainless steel with an eighteen-day maceration. Maturation lasts twelve months in medium-sized oak barrels and wooden vats.
Cascina Penna-Currado 2022 Langhe Nebbiolo Bricco Lago
Italian Red
Deep garnet colour accompanies raspberry, cherry, wild strawberry, rose and violet. Crisp red fruit and citrus appear with soft, enveloping tannins. Spice, sweet flowers, chalky texture and a light sanguine detail are also present. The medium-bodied wine is fresh, with ripe tannins. Whole berries make up thirty to forty percent of fermentation, and maturation takes place in cask.
Massolino 2021 Barolo DOCG
Italian Red
Pure, juicy cherry appears with mineral, tobacco, wild herb, red cherry, cassis, spice, smoke, liquorice, dried ginger, rusty nail and blood orange. Dense, refined tannins accompany a firm structure. The Nebbiolo comes from Serralunga d'Alba with a small portion from Castiglione Falletto. Red berry, clove, rose petal, white pepper, star anise and orange zest add further detail.
Erbaluna 2018 Barolo DOCG Organic
Italian Red
Deep ruby red shows orange highlights. Rose, violet, truffle and tobacco accompany a dry, harmonious profile that is full and velvety. Nebbiolo grows on calcareous clay with southeast exposure. The grapes are hand-picked. Vinification takes eighteen to twenty-four days, and maturation takes place for twenty-four months in large barrels. The vines stand approximately 250 to 280 metres above sea level.
Bixio Poderi 2013 Amarone della Valpolicella Classico Silver DOCG
Italian Red
Intense ruby colour with garnet variations accompanies red fruit, sour black cherry and vanilla. Plum, vanilla, spice and oak appear with a vigorous, aromatic and warm profile. Corvina Veronese, Corvinone and Rondinella come from the Badin estate. The grapes dry for sixty to ninety days before fermentation, followed by at least two years in large oak and four months in bottle.