TASTING NOTES - Bright straw-yellow colour with greenish reflections. The bouquet is pleasingly fruity with impressions of white peach and grapefruit, together with white flowers and minerals, fresh herbs. On the palate it is full, juicy,...
Nothing better than good ol’ Zinfandel when one’s fancy turns to spring-summer grillin.’ When it comes to Zinfandel, there’s one that stands head and shoulders over all the others when it comes to curing what ails you...
PRIMA Notes: The nv Gosset Brut Grande Reserve Brut is a blend of 45% Chardonnay, 45% Pinot Noir and 10% Pinot Meunier, aged for three years on the lees and finished with 7g/liter, tilting it toward the drier end of the spectrum. The...
The Barolo Riserva ‘Novantesimo’ 2011 is a celebration of the 90th Anniversary of the founding of Paolo Scavino winery. A selection of top fruit from 7 of Scavino’s crus (Cannubi, Monvigliero, Fiasco, Vignane, San Bernardo, Bricco...
This cuvée is one of Carole’s signature wines, designed to express the essential character of Chardonnay grown on the chalky hillsides of Vertus in the Côte des Blancs. The wine has brilliant precision in its structure, coming on...
The ’15 Barolo Romirasco weds opulence with energy, intensity with focus, and lushness with liveliness--it’s a wonderful wine that celebrates the ripeness of its vintage with polish and sophistication. Luscious red and blue fruits burst from...
2015 Rio Sordo
Rio Sordo is one of the best Cru sites in Barbaresco. The vineyard faces southwest, allowing the Nebbiolo vines to soak in the sun and reach optimal ripeness. The soils are primarily a mix of calcareous marl...
PRIMA Notes: The 2015 Crozes-Hermitage featured here, Cuvée Ghany (named after their first-born son), is 100% Syrah, grown in the clay, limestone and rocky soils that are typical for this particular part of the appellation. Fermented and...
Raspberry and red fruits with licorice, augmented by a delicate mineral component. In the mouth it is still quite structured but has a warm, inviting mid palate characterized by ripe red and black fruits and notes of black pepper, licorice and dried...
The 2016 Ceretto Barolo Brunate is incredibly sexy, with a tight, concentrated core of blue fruit, a kitchen cabinet’s worth of baking spices like cinnamon and clove, finished with a dash of something floral and herbal. This is a particularly...
This is a total spice box; more so than any other 2016 Vintage Port in house. Black pepper, ginger, clove, anise, orange peel, cinnamon and fruit cake notes were so beautifully entwined with plum, blackberry, violet, lavender and chocolate...
Profound floral perfumes and minerality come out vividly, red and dark berries, sour cherry, lavender and graphite dominate the nose together with gentle scents of violet petal, rose bud and a hint of pine.
Percarlo is made from 100% estate grown Sangiovese grapes, especially selected bunch per bunch, from the best zones of our vineyards, which have a low yield of 1 Kg grapes per vine.The grapes are usually allowed to mature beyond the normal degree of...
The Zero Dosage is produced with grapes from the terraced vineyards of Montorfano, adjacent to the winery's headquarters, and others vineyards. The ancient and ferrous lands of the Montorfano characterize this wine...
Vineyard ProfileDefinition of sous le Dos d’Âne: Below the ridgeline sloping on each side
Appellation: BurgundyLocation: 1 parcel in MeursaultCultivation: 100% biodynamicSize: 1.26 hectares (3.11 acres)Vine Age: Planted 1995 and 2004Soil:...
This wine rises from 500 meters above sea level in the granite soils of the right bank of the No. These low yield vines are about 30 years old and produce high quality grapes of the varieties Jaen, Alfrocheiro, Tinta Pinheira, Tinta...
100% Grecanico sourced from the estate Fontane vineyard. Fermentation lasting ten to fifteen days in amphorae on the skins with indigenous yeast. The 2019 remained in contact with the skins for a little over one month in amphoraAged in amphorae for...
The primary sources for this wine are the Teac Mor and Goldridge vineyards in the Russian River Valley, both sitting in a unique Sonoma County microclimate influenced by the Pacific Ocean, a forest of towering redwood trees, and the Russian River itself...
The jury was out on the 2018 vintage of Barolo for a long time. The harvest was the product of about every natural malady known to man and it took extraordinary attention and meticulous farming and cellar work to get it right. The good news, though, is...
Winery Notes: Il Palazzino farm, owned by Alessandro and Andrea Sderci, is located in Monti in Chianti, 20 km northeast of Siena, in the southern part of Chianti Classico Area. The estate has a total of about twenty hectares (fifty acres), great...
An annual and all-encompassing pursuit, the name Tendril honors the grapevine, the foundation for all truly great wine. Driven by the desire to provide a unique experience, Rynders created his signature five-course “meal” of Pinot Noir to...
The Battle of Bosworth 2018 Puritan Shiraz is bold and balanced, with silky tannins, vibrant acidity, and a smooth, velvety texture. It is natural, sulfite-free, and unoaked, allowing for the pure flavors of the grapes to be fully...
PRIMA Notes: Our quest for true value in Burgundy usually takes us to the more southern extremes of the appellation- the Macon, Chalon or Beaujolais regions for instance, but these two beauties hail, instead, from Burgundy’s northernmost...
2019 Torres Secret del Priorat, DOQ Priorat
Secret del Priorat reveals the idiosyncrasies of each variety and each parcel in a combination of our vineyards and those of small winegrowers, located at different altitudes and sites across the...
Winery Notes: Always a perfect pair, the Pisoni and Soberanes vineyards blend seamlessly to create the 2019 Lucia Chardonnay. In its infancy, this wine possesses a greenish lemon hue while catching the light of each swirl in the glass. The rocky,...
2019 Paolo Scavino Barolo Prapo Pre-Arrival $79.99, $84.99 in stock price
The amazing 2019 Barolos are arriving soon! Fasten your seatbelts because it’s a fabulous and unique vintage; one that, paradoxically, will appeal to both lovers...
Les Parcellaires de Saulx is a focused micro-négociant launched in 2017. It was founded on the site of the centuries old Manoir des Grands Bourgognes in Meursault.
• The first priority of the new company was to retain the services of...
PRIMA Notes: Aged in French oak barrels, as opposed to the American oak that remains the stylistic signature of both Silver Oak Cabs, it was to be an elegant, rather Bordeaux-leaning wine that also would preserve the essential character- the Napa...