3/750ml. The Preve vineyard, in the cru of Lazzarito, is a cru of calcareous marls and sandstone, which gives a saline quality to the wines. The fruit macerated on the skins for 12 days; the wine was aged for 33 months in one 20hl cask.

100% Cortese. Stefano Bellotti consistently ran afoul of the Gavi DOCG rules by pursuing a very natural approach to this wine. He quit submitting it in the 2015 vintage and renamed it "IVAG" (Gavi in reverse), an indication of his thoughts on the matter of conventional Gavi. Ulivi's IVAG comes from...

50% Corvina/20% Corvinone/ 20% Rondinella/10% Molinara & Oseleta. Saseti is named for the "little stones" found in the limestone soils of the terraced estate vineyard. The 25-year-old vines are biodynamically farmed, trained in pergola and harvested by hand around into small bins around the end...

90% Sangiovese/10% Canaiolo & Colorino. Montesecondo comprises two separate properties: both are biodynamically farmed and both lie in San Casciano in Val di Pesa at the northern edge of the Chianti Classico zone. The original family vineyard, generally referred to as "Montesecondo" or "Cerbaia...

This Syrah comes from grapes matures "at the peak" of the de' Canonici vineyard. Aged for two and a a half years in bottle, Stefano only produces this in exceptional vintages; he feels that this bottling represents the "family silver".    

100% Nero d'Avola. From multiple, certified-organic parcels with vines averaging 35 years old, planted on red-sandy, limestone soils and trained in alberello and guyot. The bunches are hand-harvested and destemmed with the berries left whole. Fermentation is spontaneous with native yeasts in 20-...

100% Teroldego. Granato is the historic flagship of Foradori, the wine that put the Teroldego grape and Foradori on the international wine map. Elisabetta first made and bottled it in 1986. Granato comes from 3 parcels across 4 hectares of the oldest estate vines, on the most gravelly of the...

Mr. Tomato Man! 85% Sangiovese and 15% Cabernet Sauvignon, sourced from Tuscan vineyards. Pizza wine unparalleled. Spaghetti wine sine qua non. Caprese wine capo di capi tutti. With its enticing black fruit aroma and luscious mouthfeel, this is about the most fun you can have with a bottle of wine...

Rosso dei Politici is the ripe, soft, gulpable red wine of Abruzzo, made from 100% Montepulciano grown in vineyards around Loreto Aprutino, half-way between the Apennine mountains and the Adriatic sea. Fermented in steel and aged in huge old barrels, it’s a richer wine than expected, a delicious...

With the first vintage released in 2016, this is a new wine for Bruna. It comes from young vines in the Garaxin vineyard in Pogli, with limestone-rich soils mixed with white & blue clay, dense with fossils.  The grapes are harvested "not-too-ripe,"  direct-pressed, and fermented and aged in...