100% Lagrein. From Nusserhof's oldest vines, up to 90 years old. The tiny-production "Gloria" has been made only 4 times so far: 2010, 2012, 2013 and 2015. As for all of the Mayr family's vines, the farming is certified organic and harvest is by hand. Typically, all of their red wines are made with...

100% Grillo. From organically farmed estate vines in the contrada of Samperi in Marsala. The vines are 30 years old, grow on sandy, limestone-rich loam and are harvested by hand. The selection of bunches for Integer is quite strict. It is made just like the Zibbibo "Integer" from De Bartoli's ...

100% Zibibbo. From very low, bush-trained, organically farmed vines on De Bartoli's estate in the contrada of Bukkuram on the island of Pantelleria. The vines average around 50 years old and are grow in light, sandy volcanic soils in a low-walled, windy clos. De Bartoli makes two dried-grape...

100% Zibibbo. Mainly from 35-50-year-old, bush-trained vines, grown very low to the ground on very light, sandy, brown, volcanic soils in the walled and windy clos of the De Bartoli’s small Bukkuram estate on the island of Pantelleria. Two dried-grape passito wines, Sole di Agosto and Padre della...

100% Grillo. From organically farmed estate vines in the Samperi contrada of Marsala, picked the earliest of all for De Bartoli's "Vignaverde" or "green vine" wine. The vines are 30 years old, planted on sandy, limestone-rich loam and trained in both Guyot and alberello. The bunches are hand-...

50% Zibibbo/50% Grillo. "Sole e Vento" is named for the two sunny and windy islands on which De Bartoli grows these grapes. All are farmed organically; are around 30 years old; are hand-harvested; and are low-yielding . The Grillo comes from vines on sandy, limestone-rich loam in the contrada of...

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...

100% Grillo. A méthode traditionelle or metodo classico wine from the organically farmed estate vineyard in the Samperi contrada of Marsala. The Grillo vines are over 30 years old, planted on sandy, limestone-rich loam. The bunches are harvested by hand into small bins, directly and gently pressed...

100% Grillo. All De Bartoli's marsala wines are pure Grillo, a rarity--as is its being organically farmed, estate-only, hand-harvested fruit. The bunches are gently pressed and the must fermented spontaneously with natural yeasts in wooden vats. The wine is first aged for a year in conical wooden...

80% Chardonnay/20% Tocai Friulano. Radikon's 750ml bottlings, known informally as the "S" line,  are Sasa Radikon's addition to his dad Stanko's original 500ml line: they are still "orange" wines but less intensely so due to a shorter period of skin contact and aging. Otherwise, all of the wines...

RibollaGialla/Malvasia/Tocai Friulano. A few kilometers from their home vineyards in the village of Oslavia in Friuli, Italy, Radikon nows farms and owns vines vines just across the border in Brda, Slovenia. There is legally a border here, but the people on either side of it share history, language...

60% Chardonnay/40% Sauvignon Blanc. All of Radikon's whites are made in the same way: the organically farmed, stunningly low-yield, hand-harvested fruit is destemmed and gently crushed with a pneumatic press. The grapes are placed in old Slavonian oak vats and co-fermented with native yeasts....

100% Ribolla Gialla from estate vines averaging over 50 years old. All of Radikon's whites are made in the same way: the organically farmed, stunningly low-yield, hand-harvested fruit is destemmed and gently crushed with a pneumatic press. It is placed in old Slavonian oak vats and fermented with...

50% Barbera/50% Bonarda (aka Croatina). Named for an old farmhouse in the midst of the vineyard, La Macchiona is La Stoppa's flagship red. It is made with the estate's oldest vines (up to 45 years old), grown on heavy, silty clay-limestone soils and farmed organically. The fruit is harvested by...

100% Barbera. The Camporomano parcel is planted with vines ranging from 20 to 45 years old. They grow on a hillside of heavy, silty, iron-rich clay soils. The farming is certified organic and includes no natural fertliizers or other soil enhancements, with wild plants growing among the vine rows....

90% Malvasia di Candia/10% Ortrugo & Trebbiano Toscano. The varieties are co-planted and the vines average 30 years of age. The fruit is harvested by hand, destemmed and fermented with native yeasts and no sulfur in tank. Maceration with the skins lasts at least 4 months. Malolactic...

100% Malvasia di Candia Aromatica. From 30-50-year-old estate vines, farmed organically and harvested by hand. The bunches are picked at normal ripeness and only in perfect health, then dried in the sun for 5-15 days. They are pressed in a by hand in a torchio (a small vertical basket press) and...

A new wine for 'A Vita (although it was made once before, in the 2012 vintage), the 'il Rosso' is 92% Gaglioppo (from the hillside vineyards of Sant'Anastasia and Muzzunetto, at 100m asl) and 8% Magliocco (from the seaside vineyard Fego, at 0m).  Both sites have typical clay-limestone marls....