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2021 Graci - Etna Rosso DOC Fuedo di Mezzo (750ml)
Healthy and energetic wine. Lots of red cherries, maraschino liqueur, rose petals, and ruby grapefruits followed by crushed lava rock undertones. Structured and creamy with crunchy and chewy tannins lifting the palate. Opulent floral characters give this ...
2015 Reyneke - Reserve Red Stellenbosch (750ml)
The 2015 Reyneke Reserve saw 35% of the grapes foot-trodden in concrete tanks (to avoid carbonic fermentation) and the rest destemmed into the tank. The wine was settled for two days and then racked to second-ll barrels and left for 20 months. The best...
2021 Reyneke - Reserve White Stellenbosch (750ml)
A well-cut white, with smoke, flint and petrol notes underscoring flavors of apple peel, persimmon and macadamia nut, plus lemon thyme and sassafras root accents. There's a plump feel to the profile that's reined in nicely by bright, buoyant acidity. Drin...
2023 Reyneke - Chenin Blanc Stellenbosch Biodynamic (750ml)
The 2023 Chenin Blanc from Reyneke is a wine I had tasted a month earlier at the estate in Stellenbosch. This bottle merely conrmed those observations, although it was much stricter on the nose at rst, opening within 20 minutes and adopting those almos...
2012 Trimbach - Riesling Cuvee Frederic Emile MAGNUM (1.5L)
The 2012 Riesling Frédéric Emile starts clear, subtle and very elegant on the floral nose. Elegant, piquantly mineral and finesse-full on the palate, with a lot of Spiel and restrained power but also some petrol hints this bottling shows a nice purity an...
2022 Graci - Etna Bianco DOC Muganazzi (750ml)
Pungently oral, the 2022 Etna Bianco Munganazzi opens with a burst of wild herbs and crushed green apples complicated by hints of wet stone. It's soothingly round and supple with crisp orchard fruits and juicy acidity, all balanced by a core of salty m...
2021 Graci - Etna Rosso DOC Arcuria (750ml)
The 2021 Etna Rosso Arcuria is remarkably pretty and lifted in the glass, with dusty rose and dried strawberries accentuated by hints of sweet smoke. It's soft-textured and round with rming minerality and tart wild berry fruits that slowly saturate. Th...
2023 La Maison Carree - Chasselas Auvernier Non-Filtre (750ml)
2023 Rivetti, G.(La Spinetta) - Colli Tortonesi DOC Timorasso Derthona (750ml)
2021 Rivetti, G.(La Spinetta) - Barbera d'Alba DOC Gallina (750ml)
The 2021 Barbera d'Alba Gallina is pretty impressive in this vintage. Dark and potent, with terric persistence, the Gallina has plenty of texture that has always been a signature but without the heaviness and strong oak imprint that was at times penali...
2020 Rivetti, G.(La Spinetta) - Barbera d'Asti DOCG Bionzo (750ml)
A big and lively red with blackberry and blueberry aromas and flavors. Full and very intense. Loads of fruit yet structured. Fantastic Barbera.
2022 Rivetti, G.(La Spinetta) - Barbera d'Asti DOCG Ca' di Pian (750ml)
2020 Volpaia - Chianti Classico Riserva (750ml)
The 2020 Chianti Classico Riserva is terrific. Macerated dark cherry, spice, leather, tobacco, dried owners and underbrush are some of the many notes that grace this super-expressive Riserva. The 2020 is a touch somber, but that only adds to its consid...
2021 Volpaia Chianti Classico (750ml)
The 2021 Chianti Classico is an absolute joy. Fragrant, silky and superexpressive, the 2021 captures all the nesse of Radda. Crushed red berry fruit, rose petal, orange peel and mint are all beautifully delineated in a vibrant, mid-weight Chianti Classi...
2019 Brezza - Barolo Cannubi (750ml)
The 2019 Barolo Cannubi is one of the best wines I have tasted from Brezza in a very long time. Sweet, perfumed and silky, the 2019 bristles with Cannubi character. Crushed red berry fruit, cedar, mint, rose petal and orange zest are some of the notes ...
2013 Ca La Bionda - Amarone della Valpolicella Classico Riserva Vigneti di Ravazzol (750ml)
The 2013 Amarone della Valpolicella Classico Riserva Ravazzol lifts up with a dusty bouquet that blends steeped plums with minty herbs, chalk dust and a onurish of white pepper. A mélange of vividly ripe wild berry fruits, savory spices and saline mine...
2018 Ca La Bionda - Amarone della Valpolicella DOCG Classico Vigneti di Ravazzol (750ml)
The 2018 Amarone della Valpolicella Classico Ravazzol is intense, bursting from the glass with bright cherry and rose tones complemented by a dusting of sweet spice and violet pastille. It opens with a pretty inner sweetness, contrasted by juicy acidit...
2019 Altesino - Brunello di Montalcino DOCG (750ml)
The Altesino 2019 Brunello di Montalcino boasts a rich and savory side that this wine wears very well. There is a beautiful level of dark fruit that folds into the wine's velvety texture. Blackberry and plum envelop the palate, adding elegant full-bodied ...
2018 Zenato - Amarone della Valpolicella DOCG Riserva Sergio Zenato (750ml)
Flavors of baked black cherry, macerated strawberry, singed orange peel and medicinal herbs are focused and expressive in this rich red, reined in nicely by sculpted, fine-grained tannins and fresh plum skin acidity. Long and fragrant, with notes of dried...
2019 Zenato - Amarone della Valpolicella DOCG Classico (750ml)
A suave red, with its lush texture carrying finely knit flavors of plumped cherry and baked raspberry. Offers accents of loamy earth, singed orange peel, medicinal herbs and rose hip. Long and fluid, with good tension through the well-spiced, lasting fi...
2021 Ferrara, Benito - Fiano di Avellino Sequenzha (750ml)
Dusty orals and spice complicate a complex blend of musky dried peaches and apricot. The 2021 Fiano di Avellino Sequenzha is silkysmooth and supple, with a pure mix of apple and pear elevated by saline-tinged acidity. The balance here is beautiful, nish...
2019 Querciabella - Chianti Classico (750ml)
The 2019 Chianti Classico (100% Sangiovese) is laced with the essence of red/purplish berry fruit, spice, cedar and oral notes. Readers will nd a classic expression of both the vintage and the house style in this super-appealing mid-weight Classico.
2020 Le Pupille - Toscana Rosso IGT Saffredi Super Tuscan (750ml)
The 2020 Saredi is compelling. Deep yet quite structured, 2020 is unlike any Saredi I can recall tasting because of its balance of intense dark fruit and vertical structure. Plum, blackberry, pencil shavings, lavender and spice saturate the palate. Rea...
2019 Casanova di Neri - Brunello di Montalcino (750ml)
Showing dried blackberry, balsam herb, vapor rub and a hint of charred chili spice, this wine offers an aromatic profile that is very much in line with a vintage that saw cool spring temperatures and a hot summer. The Casanova di Neri 2018 Brunello di Mon...
2021 Sette Ponti - Toscana Rosso IGT Crognolo Super Tuscan (750ml)
The organic Tenuta Sette Ponti 2021 Crognolo is a mid-entry blend of 90% Sangiovese and 10% Merlot that goes into oak for up to 14 months. Fruit is harvested from a historic clone of Sangiovese found on this estate. The wine shows dark concentration, cert...
2021 Verrazzano - Chianti Classico (750ml)
The 2021 Chianti Classico is a potent, deep, structured wine that hits so many right notes. Readers will nd a structured, expansive wine loaded with personality. Blue/purplish fruit, lavender, spice and licorice are all amplied in this super-classic Gr...
2017 Trimbach - Riesling Mandelberg Grand Cru (750ml)
Known as Cuvée M until the 2015 vintage, the 2017 Grand Cru Mandelberg Riesling is only the second edition of this Mittelwihr wine sold under the Alsace Grand Cru classification, although Trimbach has cultivated this warm south/southeast-sloping cru, with...
2023 Domaine Lafage - Chardonnay VdP des Cotes Catalanes Novellum (750ml)
Warm and round, with good energy. Orchard fruit and green plum notes are flanked by crushed stone and smoky mineral accents, plus well-integrated toasty details. Savory grilled herb hints echo on the well-meshed finish. Broad and nicely rich. Drink now. 2...
2022 Caymus - Cabernet Sauvignon Napa Valley
A creamy, forward style, with a core of warmed raspberry and boysenberry preserves infused liberally with mocha and melted licorice. Shows a late flicker of chaparral. This is meant for near-term hedonism. Drink now through 2034.
2020 Ada Nada - Barbaresco Elisa Rombone (750ml)
The 2020 Barbaresco Rombone is powerful, incisive and driving, with tons of energy and ne balance. This is classic Rombone all the way. Crushed rocks, incense, lavender, herbs, licorice and dried owers all race out of the glass. This potent Barbaresco ...
2018 Ada Nada - Barbaresco Elisa Rombone (750ml)
The 2018 Barbaresco Rombone is magnicent. Bright and translucent, the Rombone captures the intense spiciness and minerality that are so typical of Treiso and this sector in particular. The power, intensity and nuance here are simply remarkable. Aging i...
2017 D'Angelo - Aglianico del Vulture DOC Riserva Caselle (750ml)
2019 Mastrojanni - Brunello di Montalcino DOCG Vigna Loreto (750ml)
Showing cracked white pepper and wet slate, this wine definitely brings you to a clear sense of place. The 2019 Brunello di Montalcino Vigna Loreto is precise and delineated, but as the wine opens, you get interludes of ripe fruit, blackcurrant and oak sp...
2018 Mastrojanni - Brunello di Montalcino DOCG Riserva Vigna Schiena d'Asino (750ml)
This wine is not labeled Riserva, but it could be for all practical purposes. The Mastrojanni 2018 Brunello di Montalcino Vigna Schiena d'Asino has a dry quality of fruit, more brittle, if you will, with fallen autumn leaves, wild game, underbrush, hard s...
2020 Mastrojanni - Toscana Rosso IGT San Pio Cabernet Super Tuscan (750ml)
Here's a new surprise, and a very big one at that. Available in magnum only, the Mastrojanni 2020 Rosso di Montalcino Vigna Palazzetto is symbolic of the winery's efforts to embrace the Rosso category of the appellation that has been overlooked for too lo...
2021 Mastrojanni - Rosso di Montalcino DOC (750ml)
The 2021 Rosso di Montalcino wafts up with a darkly alluring blend of sweet herbs, menthol and tobacco complicating dried cherries and currants. This is an elegant and seductive eort with velvety textures and depths of ripe red and black fruits undersc...
2022 Wayfarer Pinot Noir Sonoma Mother Rock Vineyard
The 2022 Pinot Noir Mother Rock is the only wine the estate co-ferments with the Mt. Eden and Dijon 777 clones. For this vintage, they aged the wine in puncheon barrels, which is the first year they experimented with this format. In the glass, the wine po...
2022 Wayfarer Pinot Noir Sonoma Wayfarer Estate Vineyard
A bright red ruby hue, the 2022 Pinot Noir The Estate is lifted in the glass and has a lot of fresh, bright notes of rosy perfume, grenadine, rosemary, and sweet earth. Medium-bodied, it has a vibrant energy and savory drive on the palate, with notes of s...
2023 Do Ferreiro - Albarino Rias Baixas (750ml)
The 2023 Albariño, which represents their take of the vintage, was produced with grapes from 165 hectares of the 14 hectares they own. It goes back to the alcoholic degree of 2021, 12.5%, compared with the 13.5% of 2022. 2023 seems to be somewhere in betw...
2016 Louis Roederer - Champagne Brut Cristal (750ml)
The 2016 Cristal is a taut, incisive rendition of this benchmark bottling, unwinding in the glass with youthfully reserved aromas of citrus oil, white flowers, wet stones and subtle hints of sweet, buttery pastry. Medium to full-bodied, chiseled and racy,...
2023 Keller - Silvaner Feuervogel (750ml)
The 2023 Silvaner Feuervogel is pure and chalky on the lemony nose that shows notes of ashes and chamomile. Remarkably refined and elegant on the palate, this is a gentle, vital, weightless and savory Sylvaner with deep, energetic minerality and tension. ...
2018 Collemattoni - Brunello di Montalcino Riserva (750ml)
Remarkably pretty, the 2018 Brunello di Montalcino Riserva Vigna Fontelontano blossoms in the glass with an array of dusty violets, wild strawberries and wet stone. This is lifted in feel, with silken textures oset by a core of tactile mineral tones, a...
2022 Weingut Keller - Grosses Gewachs Spatburgunder Frauenberg (750ml)
The 2022 Spätburgunder Nieder-Flörsheimer Frauenberg Grosses Gewächs opens with smokiness that wraps itself around crunchy red cherry. A riper tone plays on the nose, but the palate melts into a veil of translucent, pure, bright fruit, held in a ne, si...
2022 Weingut Keller - Grosses Gewachs Spatburgunder Burgel (750ml)
The 2022 Spätburgunder Dalsheimer Bürgel Grosses Gewächs opens with a slight crackle of smoky reduction, wrapping itself around red berries of tart and highly aromatic allure. The palate dances, going all out with its charm. It irts with red-fruited ex...
2021 Shelter Winery - Spatburgunder Lovely Lilly (Pinot Noir)
NV Ca' del Bosco - Franciacorta DOCG Cuvee Prestige Brut Rose (750ml)
2020 Lamole - Chianti Classico Riserva DOCG Lareale (750ml)
This broad red's cherry, strawberry, mineral and eucalyptus flavors ride a wave of juicy acidity, keeping this fresh and focused. Earth, iron and tobacco accents grace the moderately gripping, salty finish. Sangiovese and Canaiolo Nero. Best from 2026 thr...
2023 Marcel Lapierre - Vin de France Raisins Gaulois (750ml)
Old Forester Barrel Strength STORE PICK Bourbon Whiskey 750ml
