100% Cortese from Ulivi's estate vines in and around Gavi. As always, the fruit was destemmed and spontaneously fermented in tank and barrel and then aged 6 months+ in a gigantic 11,000-liter oak cask, with no sulfur added at any point. This is Ulivi's entry-level white, the crown cap indicative of...

50% Corvinone, 20% Corvina, 20% Rondinella, 10% Croatina-Molinara-Dindarella. From the core Monte dall'Ora vineyard below the winery and house, where vines average 25 years old, are trained in pergola and farmed biodynamically. The bunches are selected by hand in mid-September and dried in single...

40% Corvina/30% Corvinone/20% Rondinella/10% Oseleta & Molinara. Saustò comes from the same core estate vineyard as the Saseti Valpolicella Classico and the La Stropa Amarone: 25-year-old pergola-trained, co-planted, biodynamically farmed vines of only traditional varieties. The fruit for both...

100% Trebbiano. From organically farmed vines on sandy, rocky, clay-limestone soils in Lamporecchio near Pisa. The grapes are destemmed and fermented in tank spontaneously without suflur and with a 5-day maceration. The wine is aged in cement and bottled without fining or filtering and with a small...

100% Vernaccia. From organically farmed vines in San Gimignano on sandy clay and gravel soils. The fruit is hand-harvested and partly destemmed and foot-trodden in vat, where it ferments spontaneously without suflur and with about 10 days of maceration. The wine is aged for 8 months in concrete...

100% Sangiovese. 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", is lower-altitude,...

100% Sangiovese. From organically farmed and hand-harvested Montesecondo fruit. The whole clusters are pressed and the must fermented spontaneously in tank without sulfur. It is bottled with around 10 g/liter of sugar remaining and finishes fermenting in the bottle. The wine is not fined or...

100% Syrah from Cortona, from the sandiest part of the vineyard that also makes his Apice, but harvested earlier with this rosato in mind. Direct press, fermented and aged in concrete vats with no sulfur until bottling. Juicy mineral-laced cherries with sneaky concentration. Certified Biodynamic.

100% Frappato. The three different wines in this limited-production 6-pack are all Frappato, vinified and aged identically to demonstrate the distinctions amongst the three different contrade or districts. There have been 3 vintages so far: 2016, 2017 and 2019. Contrada names are not permitted on...

70% Frappato/30% Nero d'Avola. From certified-organic estate vines, averaging 20+ years old and planted on chalky, sandy soils. The bunches are harvested by hand, destemmed and co-fermented spontaneously with native yeasts in concrete tanks. Maceration lasts approximately two weeks. The wine is...

100% Frappato. From multiple certified-organic parcels with vines averaging 40 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% Nosiola. Foradori works 2 hectares of this ancient local variety in the Fontanasanta vineyard at about 400 meters above the city of Trento, a few miles down valley from the Foradori estate in Mezzolombardo. The vines are on clay-limestone soils, lower on the hills than the Manzoni Bianco vines...

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...

100% Manzoni Bianco. Manzoni is a 1930's crossing of Riesling and Pinot Bianco, developed in the Veneto by Dr. Luigi Manzoni. Foradori works 5 hectares of this rare variety in the Fontanasanta vineyard at about 400 meters above the city of Trento, a few miles down valley from the Foradori estate in...

100% Teroldego. Local dialect for "dark", "Morei" is a warmer, stonier 2.5 hectares within the whole Foradori vineyard around the winery on the Campo Rotaliano plateau in the foothills of the Dolomites. Elisabetta planted the vines in guyot from massale cuttings in 1984. The farming is certified-...

The quintessential go-with-everything white! Crisp, bright, and fresh as a summer breeze. Serve this delightful Pinot Grigio at any meal (especially with fresh seafood) or for simple solo-sipping anytime. Perfect with a lovely little Insalata Caprese (fresh mozzarella buffalo please) drizzled with...

“Majè,” in the Ligurian dialect, refers to the stone terraces in the area. Sourced from young vines (less than 50 years old) planted in limestone-rich soils mixed with white & blue clay, dense with fossils. The bulk of the grapes come mainly from the hill of Garaxin, above the village of Pogli...

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...