Tasting Notes: This fresh Montepulciano is very enjoyable, but not simple. It has a balanced structure, with young and fresh red fruits notes and a good propensity to aging. Montepulciano is possibly the most reliable interpreter... Read More
Tasting Notes: The Carlone Estate focuses on Boca and the varieties, Nebbiolo, Croatina that make it up. After pressing, the wine is aged in Slovenian oak for eighteen months and then prepared for bottling. The first Boca wine... Read More
Tasting Notes: The Carranco Villa dei Baroni Etna Rosso expresses the volcanic personality of its homeland, an intense minerality and acidity, and a very elegant finish with light, silky and savory tannins, accompanied by intense... Read More
Estate History: As a child the fields of the family estate, Casale del Giglio, were nothing more to Antonio Santarelli than a place where he could spend carefree; but all that changed when he joined his father Dino in the family... Read More
Tasting Notes: Sourced from two parcels: Roncaglie in Barbaresco and Casasse in Neive the Cascina Baricchi Barbaresco Riserva Quindicianni is aged in 500 and 800 liter casks for five years. After that the wine spends ten years... Read More
Tasting Notes: The 2016 Cascina Baricchi Barbaresco Riserva Rose delle Casasse is a wine of pure elegance.Spice, flowers and savory herbs meld into the foreground while the fruit plays a secondary role. Less outward than the 2015,... Read More
Tasting Notes: The Barbaresco Tre Stelle from Cascina delle Rose shows classic, elegant Barbaresco aromatic notes of orange peel, spice, mint, and roses. Rich, racy and supple, this gorgeous wine is ready to drink now or hold... Read More
Tasting Notes: The Cascina Fontana Barolo is an old-school classic wine. Producer Mario Fontana sources the fruit for his Barolo from Villero and Valletti in Castiglione Falletto and Gallinotto in La Morra. Fermentation starts... Read More
Estate History: Deirdre O’Brien and Maurizio Caffer are ex-pats from Ireland that have run their organic/ biodynamic farm in Villamiroglio, a village in the hills of Monferrato in Piedmont, since 2014. On their estate, named... Read More