San Ferdinando’s Chianti ‘Il Gargaiolo’ takes its name from the eponymous stream that runs along the Sangiovese vineyard.  This vintage, the blend is 85% Sangiovese, 10% Ciliegiolo, and 5% ancient co-planted varietals; the grapes come from vineyards at 350m, facing south-southeast on light sandy...

100% Sangiovese, with yields at 35 hl/ha. The wine was fermented in open-top stainless steel vats with macerations lasting over a month; malolactic took place in barrel. Aged 18 months in 228-350L barrels, 20% of which were new.  This wine is a clear indication that Candialle is in no rush to...

100% Sangiovese. Jarkko and Josephin were the first in Chianti Classico to use 250L ceramic orbs called Clayver for aging their wines.  They are fired a very high temperatures and are 20% less porous than terracotta. The wine is called Mimas--one of the many satellites of Saturn--as the Clayver...

100% Sangiovese, with yields at 35 hl/ha. The wine was fermented in open-top stainless steel vats with macerations lasting over a month; malolactic took place in barrel. Aged 18 months in 228-350L barrels, 20% of which were new.  This wine is a clear indication that Candialle is in no rush to...

Malvasia Verde/Malvasia Bianco/Biancame/Trebbiano/Grechetto. Organically farmed, hand-harvested estate fruit. The grapes are destemmed and macerated overnight, gently pressed and and co-fermented with native yeasts in glass-lined cement tanks. The wine is aged in steel and then bottled in May after...

100% Sangiovese. Fonterenza's classic Rosso di Montalcino comes from across their hilly, contiguous four hectares of vines in San Polo, just southeast of Montalcino. It has never been a "second wine" for them. Their entire small holding qualifies for Brunello DOCG technically, but the legal...

90% Vermentino/10% Malvasia & Trebbiano. The fruit is from 25-to-50-year-old, organically farmed vines on sandy, rocky volcanic soils in the hilly Monte Amiata zone about 10 miles south of Montalcino. The bunches are harvested by hand, destemmed, gently presssed and fermented spontaneously...

100% Sangiovese. Fonterenza grows four contiguous hectares of hilly vineyards just southeast of the town of Montalcino. The crown jewel of their holdings is a 1.6-hectare parcel valled Vigna del Bosco, so named for the fact that the steep, south-facing, amphitheater-shaped vineyard is entirely...

100% Sangiovese. Fonterenza grows four contiguous hectares of hilly vineyards just southeast of the town of Montalcino. The crown jewel of their holdings is a 1.6-hectare parcel valled Vigna del Bosco, so named for the fact that the steep, south-facing, amphitheater-shaped vineyard is entirely...

70% Montepulciano & 30% Sangiovese. Fermented in stainless steel and aged four months in steel & six months in bottle before release. As the Gambero Rosso puts it: “the Rosso Piceno is a consumer’s dream, straightforward but delicious and a pleasure to drink.”

100% Pecorino from De Angelis’ vineyards in Offida. Made in stainless steel.

100% Blatterle. This indigenous variety goes back centuries in the Alto Adige but has shrunk down to a mere 1.5 hectares in production today. Nusserhof is one of only three growers of this thin-skinned, golden-yellow rarity and is the largest of them with their half hectare in Bolzano. The farming...

90% Schiava/10% "other". Known locally as Vernatsch, Schiava is a thin-skinned grape native to the Alto Adige but down to only about 200 hectares in the region. The Mayrs of Nusserhof have a 1.5-hectare plot of 90-year-old Schiava vines a few kilometers from their home vineyard (mixed in are...

75% Carricante/25% Catarratto. From 30-year old, sustainably farmed vines on sandy volcanic soils at 700-750 meters. The bunches are harvested by hand, gently pressed and fermented spontaneously in stainless steel with temperature control. The wine is aged for 10 months, with 60% of it in amphora...

100% Grillo. “La Miccia” is the sweetest, shortest-aged version of a De Bartoli marsala wine and the only one not oxidative in style. As for all of their marsalas, it is made exclusively with organic, hand-harvested, estate Grillo—all parts of that are a rarity for any marsala. The bunches are...

100% Zibibbo. From organically farmed estate vines in the contrada of Bukurram on the island of Pantelleria, about 200 km. southwest of the Sicilian mainland, closer to Tunisia. The vines are bush-trained, aged around 60 years old and grown on north-facing terraces of sandy, pebbly, poor, black...