Luciano Sandrone
Luciano Sandrone Dolcetto d’Alba 2021
The child of an excellent growing season, Sandrone’s 2021 Dolcetto d’Alba is a thing of beauty. Juicy cherries and wild brambly berries dance with spice,... flower petals, a kiss of earth, and closes with that telltale Dolcetto note of almonds. This surprisingly complex wine is super-enjoyable, offering a sweet inner perfume, terrific balance, and an open-knit personality. This is one food-friendly wine to pop and pour again and again!
$23.99Pre-ArrivalLuciano Sandrone
Luciano Sandrone Barbera d’Alba 2020
Luciano Sandrone’s 2020 Barbera d’Alba explodes from the glass with a shower of rich, ripe red and blue fruits, warm spices, elegant minerality, a dusting... of cocoa, and touches of wildflowers and herbs. This wine embraces its opposites; it’s at once enveloping and nuanced, broad shouldered and electric, and chewy and fresh. It’s a full-throttle Barbera with a kiss of oak, and it’ll make your simple foods sing for the next half decade!
$35.00Pre-ArrivalFontodi
Fontodi Chianti Classico 2019
Fontodi’s 2019 cuvée Chianti Classico delivers transparent terroir, thrilling texture, and a dynamically classic profile. Juicy red cherries, gravel dust, crushed... wild herbs, pressed lavender, black truffles, and freshly milled spices dance in this expressive, nicely tannic wine. If you’re a fan of pure, unadulterated Tuscan winemaking at its traditional best, Fontodi’s organic Chianti will make you very, very happy.
$39.95Pre-ArrivalETA: WinterLuciano Sandrone
Luciano Sandrone Nebbiolo d’ Alba Valmaggiore 2020
Piemonte’s Valmaggiore hill is a natural amphitheater, and it’s a historic site for growing Nebbiolo. Luciano Sandrone’s 2020 Valmaggiore... does so much more than give an enticing look at the fine 2020 Nebbiolo vintage — it’s a knockout Nebbiolo in its own right. Peppery spices, violet petals, crushed river rocks, sun-warmed earth, and blood orange frame the crisp red fruits in this drink-me-now beauty. Luscious and silky, the 2020 Valmaggiore is one wine you’ll want to pop again and again.
$41.99Pre-ArrivalMarchesi Antinori Vina de Haras Pirque
$45.00Pre-ArrivalMarchesi Antinori
Typical of its sunny, temperate vintage, the 2018 Bramasole shows a sophisticated, nuanced side of Syrah in a wine that’s as silky as it is sexy. Layers of tart cherries and sweet plums mingle with... exotic spices, smoked pepper, black licorice, pressed violets, vanilla, and pipe tobacco in this effortlessly elegant Syrah. This wonderfully structured wine offers impeccable balance among its elements, with velvety tannins matching the wine’s fresh acidity — and a finish that seems to resonate for a minute. A stunning achievement that’s enjoyable over the next decade, likely longer.
$59.00 $49.00Pre-ArrivalPrunotto
Prunotto Barbaresco Bric Turot 2018
Also a relatively new addition to Prunotto’s lineup, the 2018 Barbaresco Bric Turot offers a swaggering, dark complement to the estate’s delicate and ethereal... 2018 Barbaresco Secondine. Brooding and striking, this wine layers its crunchy red and juicy blue fruits with ample notes of tobacco, warm loam, new leather, underbrush, baking spices, and violets. This structured Barbaresco needs a couple of years to tame its burly tannins, but with some time, it’ll turn into a gentle giant that will bewitch with its kaleidoscopic palate.
$59.00Pre-ArrivalMarchesi Antinori
It might be a little early to call the 2019 Chianti Classico Gran Selezione from the Antinori family’s Badia a Passignano estate a masterpiece, but it sure looks like one. This soaring, detailed... wine wraps its sun-warmed dark cherries around a savory framework of new leather, terracotta, pipe tobacco, violet petals, and wild herbs. This Chianti Classico Gran Selezione shows impeccable precision and balance, integrating its dusty tannins with fresh acidity as it luxuriates in a long, resonant, and enveloping finish — stunning!
$59.00Pre-Arrival