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2022 Passopisciaro - Terre Siciliane Rosso IGT Contrada Chiappemacine
The 2022 Etna Rosso Contrada Chiappemacine, tasted from barrel, is rosy and perfumed with hints of exotic spice, giving way to notes of dried strawberry. This is supple and round, quite elegant in feel, with crisp minerality and crunchy wild berry frui...
2022 Passopisciaro - Terre Siciliane Rosso IGT Contrada Guardiola
Smoky and ashy in the glass, the 2022 Etna Rosso Contrada Guardiola opens with a burst of ashen stones and grilled herbs, evolving into crushed black cherries and lifted by hints of menthol. It sweeps across the palate with textures of pure silk as a p...
2022 Passopisciaro - Sicilia Rosso DOC Contrada Sciaranuova
The 2022 Etna Rosso Contrada Sciaranuova is youthfully coy, with a dusty blend of dried flowers, earth tones and ash wafting up from the glass. Silky yet lifted and finessed, it sweeps across the palate with medium-weight textures and bright red berry ...
2022 Passopisciaro - Sicilia Rosso DOC Contrada Porcaria
Spicy and mineral in style, the 2022 Etna Rosso Contrada Porcaria opens with a whiff of white smoke, blowing off to reveal dried strawberries and rubbed sage. It's soft-textured with medium-bodied weight, offset by zesty acidity, crisp minerality and t...
2020 Pepe, Emidio - Montepulciano d'Abruzzo DOC Branella
Dusty and floral, the 2020 Montepulciano d’Abruzzo Vecchie Vigne Branella slowly blossoms with a beguiling mix of crushed ashen stones, incense and dried roses lifted by a mentholated freshness. This is pure class, silky smooth and deeply expressive wi...
2020 Pepe, Emidio - Montepulciano d'Abruzzo DOC Casa Pepe
The 2020 Montepulciano d’Abruzzo Vecchie Vigne Casa Pepe is perfumed and wildly expressive, wafting up with a bouquet of dried violets, lavender, red plums and exotic spice. This possesses a gorgeous blend of vividly ripe red and blue fruits underscore...
2019 Pepe, Emidio - Trebbiano d'Abruzzo DOC
The most inviting mix of lemon oils, musky pear and peach, raw almond, ginger, iodine and yellow flowers wafts up from the 2019 Trebbiano d’Abruzzo Vecchie Vigne. It’s pliant, yet almost buoyant, seeming to hover across the palate with notes of apricot...
2022 Picariello, Ciro - Fiano di Avellino DOCG
The Ciro Picariello 2022 Fiano di Avellino is an elegant and silky expression from a hot vintage. High-elevation vines at 650 meters above sea level on clay volcanic soils serve to protect this wine against any excessive ripeness. Instead, this unoaked wi...
2020 Picariello, Ciro - Fiano di Avellino DOCG Brut Contadino
The 2020 Brut Contadino is a total pleasure, opening with hints of spicy ginger and dried flowers that evolve into a blend of young peach and crushed rocks. This is decidedly savory and mineral in style, with a creamy bead of massaging bubbles that soo...
2022 Pieropan - Soave DOC Classico Calvarino
The first single-vineyard created here, in the late 18th century. More black soil than in the Soave Classico. This is very good, meshing the inherent ripeness of the vintage with a mineral-infused pungency. Green apples, quince and stone fruit. Yet the fe...
