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Castello Bonomi

Castello Bonomi Franciacorta Brut CruPerdu 2014 750ml

AVG91

About Castello Bonomi

The Paladin family, who has been making estate-bottled wine for about 60 years, owns several estates across Italy, from the Veneto to Tuscany, but... perhaps their most famous and most distinct is Castello Bonomi, in Lombardy’s Franciacorta region. With vinicultural history that dates back to medieval Benedictine monks, Franciacorta spans about 5,400 acres, but this rare northern Italian region is devoted to one unique style of wine: the best champagne-styled sparklers that you can find outside of France — indeed, it’s the sole DOCG region that permits classic méthode champenoise sparklers. The family-owned-and-operated Castello Bonomi estate is housed in a gorgeous art deco villa built in the late nineteenth century, and the estate’s vineyards sit on 60 steeply pitched acres in a natural amphitheater that rests at the foot of Mount Orfano. These terraced vineyards enjoy a privileged microclimate that includes limestone-rich soils, southern exposures, excellent drainage, and pure sunlight. These elements provide the raw materials that Castello Bonomi’s Chardonnay and Pinot Nero grapes need, while a strict green harvest, low yields, and stringent grape sorting help the estate’s team craft a range of terroir-driven, award-winning Franciacorta wines.
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Castello Bonomi

Castello Bonomi Franciacorta Brut CruPerdu NV 1.5L

AVG91

About Castello Bonomi

The Paladin family, who has been making estate-bottled wine for about 60 years, owns several estates across Italy, from the Veneto to Tuscany, but... perhaps their most famous and most distinct is Castello Bonomi, in Lombardy’s Franciacorta region. With vinicultural history that dates back to medieval Benedictine monks, Franciacorta spans about 5,400 acres, but this rare northern Italian region is devoted to one unique style of wine: the best champagne-styled sparklers that you can find outside of France — indeed, it’s the sole DOCG region that permits classic méthode champenoise sparklers. The family-owned-and-operated Castello Bonomi estate is housed in a gorgeous art deco villa built in the late nineteenth century, and the estate’s vineyards sit on 60 steeply pitched acres in a natural amphitheater that rests at the foot of Mount Orfano. These terraced vineyards enjoy a privileged microclimate that includes limestone-rich soils, southern exposures, excellent drainage, and pure sunlight. These elements provide the raw materials that Castello Bonomi’s Chardonnay and Pinot Nero grapes need, while a strict green harvest, low yields, and stringent grape sorting help the estate’s team craft a range of terroir-driven, award-winning Franciacorta wines.
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Giorgio Pelissero

Giorgio Pelissero Barbaresco Nubiola 2016 1.5L

Giorgio Pelissero Barbaresco Nubiola 2016 1.5L Plush, juicy, and bold, Giorgio Pelissero’s 2016 Barbaresco Nubiola leaps from the glass with lots of succulent cherries and plums wrapped in melted... chocolate, new leather, spicy oak, pipe tobacco, and mint. Nubiola is Pelissero’s entry-level Barbaresco (it’s a trademarked name, not a vineyard), and this open knit, nicely structured wine welcomes you with dusty tannins, an elegant acidic spine, and terrific integration. Enjoy now with decanting or cellar for a decade or longer.
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Luciano Sandrone

Luciano Sandrone Barolo Le Vigne 2015 750ml

Sandrone Barolo Le Vigne 2015 Lacy, juicy, elegant, and nervy, Sandrone’s 2015 Barolo Le Vigne is a fabulous effort from a superb year. Rose petals and crushed lavender frame the abundant sweet red... cherries and berries that rest on a foundation of pressed mint, sun-warmed earth, cigar wrapper, and a touch of orange peel. For all its drink-me-now exuberance, this Barolo vibrates with acidic energy and focused, chewy tannins, suggesting that it’s in it for the long haul. Enjoy with liberal aeration or let it rest for the next couple of decades — either way, this Sandrone Barolo is a beauty!
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Dal Forno Romano

Dal Forno Romano Vigneto Monte Lodoletta Valpolicella Superiore 2014 750ml

Vigneto Monte Lodoletta Valpolicella Superiore 2014 In the challenging 2014 vintage, Dal Forno opted against making any Amarone and decided to focus on its Valpolicella Superiore. This stunning,... complex wine shows the wisdom of that choice! Oscillating between sweet cherries and tart blackberries, bright acidity and intense dry extract, juicy fruits and savory underpinnings, this wine is a marvel. Notes of cigar wrapper, licorice, Christmas cake, chocolate and game ebb and flow. This broad-shouldered beauty is nimble and powerful — an absolute must that will drink for decades.
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Dal Forno Romano

Dal Forno Romano Vigneto Monte Lodoletta Valpolicella Superiore 2015 750ml

Vigneto Monte Lodoletta Valpolicella Superiore 2015 Massive, soaring, bold, and stunning, Dal Forno’s 2015 Valpolicella Superiore is a knockout. Sumptuous cherries, rich plums, and brambly berries... are framed by underbrush, dark chocolate, violet petals, woodsmoke, exotic spices, and tarry earth in this thrilling wine. This finely tannic wine has structure for years, but its inner sweetness and compelling juiciness make you want to drink it right now, which you can with plenty of aeration. Patient wine-lovers will also be rewarded for years and years to come!
$119.00Pre-Arrival
Dal Forno Romano

Dal Forno Romano Vigneto Monte Lodoletta Valpolicella Superiore 2012 750ml

Vigneto Monte Lodoletta Valpolicella Superiore 2012 Dal Forno’s hedonistic, long-aging Valpolicella Superiore may not be for everyone, but the 2012 aims to change that. This is one seriously... enjoyable, heady wine that brims with red and black fruits, pipe tobacco, crushed hazelnuts, peppery spices, leather, and melted chocolate. Vibrant acidity carries the substantial dry extract and chewy tannins into a long, lingering and very satisfying finish.
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Dal Forno Romano

Dal Forno Romano Vigneto Monte Lodoletta Valpolicella Superiore 2008 750ml

Vigneto Monte Lodoletta Valpolicella Superiore 2008 Upon release, this 2008 Valpolicella Superiore received heaps of praise for its intensity, kaleidoscopic palate, and relative early... approachability. Now with fifteen years of maturity, this wine is firing on all cylinders — it’s a true “baby Amarone”! Gobs of inky black fruits and crisp red berries are wrapped with melted chocolate, woodsmoke, peppery spices, forest floor, coffee beans, and leather in this bewitching wine. Firm, chewy tannins, electric acidity, and loads of dry extract harmonize wonderfully in this long-aging blockbuster wine. 
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Dal Forno Romano

Dal Forno Romano Vigneto Monte Lodoletta Valpolicella Superiore 2010 750ml

Vigneto Monte Lodoletta Valpolicella Superiore 2010 The 2010 Dal Forno Valpolicella Superiore (the name changed to include Monte Lodoletta with this vintage) marries richness with detail, power with... finesse, and immediate enjoyability with longevity — this wine has it all! Now at more than 13 years of age, this wine remains incredibly youthful and vibrant. Layers and layers of black cherries, blackberries, and plums mingle with saddle leather, licorice, balsamic herbs, smoked game, cigar box, and olive tapenade. Dusty, fine tannins balance beautifully with bright acidity in this superb, deeply enjoyable wine.
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Dal Forno Romano

Dal Forno Romano Vigneto Monte Lodoletta Valpolicella Superiore 2003 750ml

Vigneto Monte Lodoletta Valpolicella Superiore 2003 Two decades of age have polished Dal Forno’s big, broad-shouldered 2003 Valpolicella Superiore to a glossy, sophisticated sheen. This wine keeps... its fistfuls of super-ripe cherries, berries, and plums, but now they’re impeccably balanced with sweet, chewy tannins, and elegant, lively acidity. Savory notes of coffee, bitter chocolate, tarry earth, forest floor, and baking spices underpin the sweet fruits in this monumental, beautifully structured wine. 
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Dal Forno Romano

Dal Forno Romano Vigneto Monte Lodoletta Valpolicella Superiore 2004 750ml

Vigneto Monte Lodoletta Valpolicella Superiore 2004 This massive, inky-dark 2004 Valpolicella Superiore explodes from the glass with a shower of cassis, ripe plums, wild berries and secondary notes... of balsamic herbs, cigar wrapper, dark chocolate, spice, and espresso. Tannins feel firm and chewy, suggesting that even with almost two decades of age, this wine is only now creeping into its drinking window, and it has decades ahead of it. This intense wine is nonetheless detailed and finessed — it just needs more time in the cellar or abundant aeration for true enjoyment.
$149.00In Stock
Ornellaia

Ornellaia Bolgheri Superiore 2020 750ml

WD96

Ornellaia

Though Ornellaia entered the Super-Tuscan field later than Sassicaia and Solaia, Ornellaia made up for lost time with global impact, and today, Ornellaia’s... flagship and other wines are hot commodities on the fine wine market. Ornellaia’s 244 acres sit in Bolgheri, just a few miles from the Tyrrhenian Sea, and the estate’s holdings are split between two parcels, a 100-acre parcel located in a natural bowl near the state-of-the-art cantina and the remaining acres in the Bellaria subzone closer to the sea. This assortment of microclimates, supported by soils that range from stony to clayey to loamy, offers ideal growing conditions to its predominantly Bordeaux-style grape varietals. Since 2005, the Frescobaldi family has owned and operated Ornellaia, and Axel Heinz has served as the company’s chief winemaker, running the Ornellaia operation with a painstaking eye for detail and dedication to his craft.
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