Our Portfolio
Ampeleia – Alicante IGT Costa Toscana
Alicante from Tuscany, Italy
This bottling is part of the "Monovarietali" project, highlighting single varieties and single vineyards whose special characteristics precluded them from blending in other wines.  The grapes are sourced from a parcel called "Vigna della Pieve," with sandy volcanic soils rich in pebbles, planted to...
90 WSBiodynamic
DB6277-17
Ampeleia – Ampeleia IGT Costa Toscana
Cabernet Franc from Tuscany, Italy
100% Cabernet Franc from the Ampeleia di Sopra parcels at 450-600 meters above sea level. Vines were planted between1995 and 2004.  The grapes are fully destemmed and there is a maceration of 20 days.  Fermented in cement tanks and 5000-6000L casks. Aging is 12 months in these same vessels,...
Biodynamic
DB6280-16
Morisfarms – Avvoltore IGT
from Tuscany, Italy
Avvoltore is the company’s “flagship” wine; the name comes from a species of hawk native to Maremma that often flies over the vineyards. The fruit is sourced from vineyards planted on the “Poggio dell’Avvoltore” hill; these clay-limestone soils produce a strong and powerful red with firm tannins. ...
95 VW
DB6213-13
Morisfarms – Avvoltore IGT
from Tuscany, Italy
Avvoltore is the company’s “flagship” wine; the name comes from a species of hawk native to Maremma that often flies over the vineyards. The fruit is sourced from vineyards planted on the “Poggio dell’Avvoltore” hill; these clay-limestone soils produce a strong and powerful red with firm tannins....
92 VW
DB6213-12
Ampeleia – Bianco di Ampeleia IGT Costa Toscana
White Blend from Tuscany, Italy
The 1st vintage of Bianco di Ampeleia was 2016. A neighbor's vineyard had old vines of a local biotype of Trebbiano Toscano; Ampeleia used its cuttings and starting planting in 2013, between Ampeleia di Mezzo and Ampeleia di Sopra (300-600m with varied soil composition). The vineyards were planted...
Biodynamic
DB8130-18
Fonterenza – Bianco IGT Toscano Bianco
Trebbiano from Tuscany, Italy
Ansonaca/Vermentino/Trebbiano/Malvasia. 2018 is the first vintage of the straight "Bianco" and is another first for Fonterenza: sourcing fruit from the Tuscan coast, specifically the red sandy soils of Capalbio, where the Padovani sisters know two brothers farming local white varieties organically...
Organic
DB3527-18
La Gerla – Birba Vino della Toscana IGT
Sangiovese from Tuscany, Italy
100% Sangiovese Grosso, planted on a hillside vineyard at 270 to 320 meters. The average age of the vines is 25 years old. The grapes are macerated under cool temperatures and undergo a long, slow fermentation at 30 degrees. The wine spends up to 14 months in barrique (1/3rd new) and 12 months in...
Organic
DB1183-14
Fonterenza – Brunello di Montalcino
Sangiovese from Tuscany, Italy
100% Sangiovese Grosso. The first plot planted by the Padovanis was this 1.6-hectare hillside plot which they named Bosco for the woodlands or "bosco" completely surrounding  this spectacular south-facing site. Because the Brunello di Montalcino DOCG had been closed to any further additions of...
Organic
DB0968-12
La Gerla – Brunello di Montalcino
Sangiovese from Tuscany, Italy
The La Gerla Brunello is a blend of both the Canalicchio and Castelnuovo vineyards; the average age of the vines is 25 years old. The grapes are kept cool for 7-8 days before fermentation, which lasts up to 15 days. The wine is then transferred to large 50-100hl casks and is aged for three years,...
91 WA, 90 VMOrganic
DB1181-14
La Gerla – Brunello di Montalcino
Sangiovese from Tuscany, Italy
The La Gerla Brunello is a blend of both the Canalicchio and Castelnuovo vineyards; the average age of the vines is 25 years old.  The grapes are destemmed but kept whole-berry, and are kept cool for 7-8 days before spontaneous fermentation, which lasts up to 15 days. The wine is then transferred...
92 WS, 92+ WA, 92+ VMOrganic
DB1181-13
La Gerla – Brunello di Montalcino Riserva gli Angeli
Sangiovese from Tuscany, Italy
This single-vineyard cru is La Gerla's flagship wine. Made in select years, this comes entirely from a one-hectare parcel of old vines (25-30 years old) from the original Biondi-Santi site, located between 270 and 320 meters above sea level. This hillside vineyard occupies a privileged position at...
92 VM
DB1182-13
Ampeleia – Cabernet Franc IGT Costa Toscana
Cabernet Franc from Tuscany, Italy
100% Cabernet Franc, this is part of Ampeleia's 'Monovarietali' project, highlighting single varieties and single vineyards who special characteristics precluded them from blending in other wines. The grapes are sourced from a single parcel called "Vigna all'Asina," This vineyard sits at 500 meters...
Biodynamic
DB6276-18
Ampeleia – Carignano IGT Costa Toscana
Carignan from Tuscany, Italy
100% Carignan, this bottling is part of the "Monovarietali" project.  It comes from the 'Campo al Finocchio' vineyard, planted between 2002-2004 at 250m above sea level, with grey clays and galestro (friable clay/limestone marl).  The SW-facing vineyard is isolated, surrounded by trees. Harvest was...
Biodynamic
DB6282-17
San Ferdinando – Chianti "Il Gargaiolo"
Sangiovese from Tuscany, Italy
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...
Organic
DB0114-16
Montesecondo – Chianti Classico
Sangiovese from Tuscany, Italy
90% Sangiovese/10% Canaiolo & Colorino (co-planted as is traditional in Chianti). Silvio has two separate properties: both are in the San Casciano zone of Chianti Classico but are quite different in nature. The original family-owned vineyard, generally referred to as "Montesecondo", is the...
Biodynamic
DB0593-17
Bowler Wine Blank Default Image
Chianti Classico
Sangiovese from Tuscany, Italy
Biodynamic
DB0593-12
Candialle – Chianti Classico
Sangiovese from Tuscany, Italy
100% Sangiovese from organically farmed and manually-harvested vineyards with yields at 35 hl/ha. The wine was fermented in open-top stainless steel vats; malolactic took place in barrel. Aged 18 months in 228-350L barrels, 20% of which were new. Medium-bodied with excellent persistence and depth....

DB0687-13
Bowler Wine Blank Default Image
Candialle – Chianti Classico Gran Selezione
Sangiovese from Tuscany, Italy
   
Organic
DB8126-13
San Ferdinando – Ciliegiolo Rosso Toscana IGT
Ciliegiolo from Tuscany, Italy
Ciliegiolo, meaning “cherry-like”, is usually reserved as a blending grape. Bottled on its own, it shows remarkably bright red fruits and fresh acidity.  There have been conflicting studies, but Ciliegiolo is either a parent or offspring of Sangiovese.  San Ferdinando’s version comes from 1.7...

DB0115-18
San Ferdinando – Ciliegiolo Toscana IGT Rosato
Ciliegiolo from Tuscany, Italy
100% Ciliegiolo from a lower, more productive part of their vineyards, planted in 2006. Harvest was in the beginning of September at yields of 8,000 kg/ha (about 48 hl/ha). Direct press with just a few hours of skin contact in the press extracting a touch of color. Spontaneous fermentation occurred...
Organic
DB3033-18
Amerighi, Stefano – Cortona DOC Syrah
Syrah from Tuscany, Italy
100% Syrah, a portion of which are partially de-stemmed, while some are left whole and still others are lightly foot pressed. Fermentation occurs spontaneously in small concrete vats and without the use of pumps, sulphur or temperature control. The wine is then allowed to clarify naturally in a...
Biodynamic
DB0208-16
Bowler Wine Blank Default Image
Gargaiolo Chianti DOCG
Sangiovese from Tuscany, Italy
Organic
DB0114-10
Montesecondo – Il Rospo Cabernet Sauvignon
Cabernet Sauvignon from Tuscany, Italy
100% Cabernet Sauvignon. Silvio has  2 separate properties: both are in the San Casciano zone of Chianti Classico but are at opposite ends of it and quite different in nature. The original family-owned vineyard, generally referred to as "Montesecondo", is  the lower-altitude, warmer, more-clay-...
Biodynamic
DB0656-18
Ampeleia – Kepos IGT Costa Toscana
Red blend from Tuscany, Italy
Different Mediterranean grape varieties— 60% Alicante Nero (aka Grenache), 25%  Mourvedre, 15% Carignano—   sourced in the vineyards closest to the sea, in Ampeleia di Sotto, where the Mediterranean scrub dominates the landscape and permeates the air with its fragrances. The parcels are at 200-350...
92 WSBiodynamic
DB6279-17
Bowler Wine Blank Default Image
La Misse de Candialle Chianti Classico
Sangiovese from Tuscany, Italy
Organic
DB0686-10
Candialle – La Misse de Candialle Chianti Classico
Sangiovese from Tuscany, Italy
98% Sangiovese and 2% Canaiolo from their organically tended and manually harvested vineyards. Vinified and aged in unlined concrete vats.  

DB0686-16
Bowler Wine Blank Default Image
Candialle – La Misse di Candialle Chianti Classico
Sangiovese from Tuscany, Italy
98% Sangiovese and 2% Canaiolo from their organically tended and manually harvested vineyards. Vinified and aged in unlined concrete vats.  

DB0686-14
Bowler Wine Blank Default Image
Fonterenza – Le Ragazze IGT Toscano Bianco
Trebbiano from Tuscany, Italy
50% Vermentino/50% Trebbiano Toscano/Grechetto/Malvasia. 2017 is the first vintage of this wine, named for "the girls" of proprietor Margherita Padovani. It came from old vines in the Mt. Amiata zone not far from Montalcino, where Fonterenza harvests fruit grown by an organic farmer friend who...
Organic
DB5754-17
Cerreto Libri – Liber
Sangiovese from Tuscany, Italy
90% Sangiovese/10% Canaiolo & Colorino. The old vines are biodynamically farmed and very low-yielding. The bunches are harvested by hand and destemmed but not crushed and put into old concrete tanks that are 3/4-filled; the spontaneous fermentation with indigenous yeasts is thus partly carbonic...
Organic
DB5374-14
Cerreto Libri – Liber
Sangiovese from Tuscany, Italy
90% Sangiovese/10% Canaiolo & Colorino. The old vines are biodynamically farmed and very low-yielding. The bunches are harvested by hand and destemmed but not crushed and put into old concrete tanks that are 3/4-filled; the spontaneous fermentation with indigenous yeasts is thus partly carbonic...
Organic
DB5374-11
Morisfarms – Morellino di Scansano DOCG
Sangiovese from Tuscany, Italy
The first bottle of Morellino di Scansano dates back to 1981, only a few years after the DOC had been created in 1978. This wine gets its flavour from the sandy soil on which the vines grow and the final result, in the glass, is an elegant wine with soft tannins. A blend of ninety percent...

DB6210-17
Fonterenza – Pettitrosso Vino Rosso
Sangiovese from Tuscany, Italy
90% Sangiovese/10% Ciliegiolo. Sourced from the same terroir as the whites: old, organically farmed vines on the volcanic soils of Mt Amiata. The varieties are hand-harvested, destemmed, gently pressed and co-fermented spontaneously with a 13-day maceration. The wine is aged in large steel tank for...
Organic
DB1036-18
La Gerla – Poggio gli Angeli Sangiovese IGT
Sangiovese from Tuscany, Italy
La Gerla rents and fully farms this vineyard in Castelnuovo dell'Abate in the southern part of the appellation. The vines are 15 years old, so they prefer to make a younger, fresher wine from it. Fermented in stainless steel, aged in used Slavonian oak botti for 4 months.  15,000 bottles produced. 
Organic
DB1185-17
Fonterenza – Rosa IGT Toscana
Sangiovese from Tuscany, Italy
100% Sangiovese. Fonterenza selects vines from its estate Brunello and Rosso di Montalcino vineyard for earlier harvest for their rosato (before the 2018 vintage, it was made from purchased fruit). The fruit is direct-pressed and the juice macerated overnight with the skins; fermentation is with...
Organic
DB1035-18
Sanguineto – Rosato
Sangiovese from Tuscany, Italy
100% Sangiovese Piccolo. 2018 is Sanguineto's second vintage of rosato (2016 was the first and none was made in 2017). Dora rents and works these vines, not far from the home estate outside of Montepulciano, just as she does the home vines: by hand, purely organically, and with meticulous care....
Organic
DB8871-18
La Gerla – Rosso di Montalcino
Sangiovese from Tuscany, Italy
100% Sangiovese from hillside vineyards located at between 270-320 meters. The average age of the vines is 15 years old. La Gerla Rosso spends six monhts in tank, then one year in Slavonian oak (large casks of 50hl) and another six months in bottle before being released.  
Organic
DB1180-17
Fonterenza – Rosso di Montalcino
Sangiovese from Tuscany, Italy
100% Sangiovese Grosso. The fruit for the Rosso di Montalcino bottling comes from 3 contiguous, north-facing estate plots--Vigna della Strada, Alberello and Bosco--on complex clay soils variously rich in limestone, sandstone and schist, harvested and vinified separately. The vines are farmend...
Organic
DB0238-16
Sanguineto – Rosso di Montepulciano
Sangiovese from Tuscany, Italy
Prugnolo Gentile/Canaiolo Nero/Mammolo. Prugnole Gentile is the variant of Sangiovese in and around Montepulciano and is the majority of the blend, as is traditional and required by law (70% minimum). All of the fruit is from organically farmed estate vines, many of them quite old, and all of them...
Organic
DB0128-17
Maestro del Pomidoro – Rosso di Toscana
Sangiovese from Tuscany, Italy
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...

DB0030-16
Maestro del Pomidoro – Sangiovese
Sangiovese from Tuscany, Italy
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...

DB0030-15
Montesecondo – Sangiovese Anfora Tïn
Sangiovese from Tuscany, Italy
100% Sangiovese. Silvio has two separate properties: both are in the San Casciano zone of Chianti Classico but are at opposite ends of it about 18 k. apart and quite different in nature. The original family-owned vineyard, generally referred to as "Montesecondo", is the lower-altitude, warmer, more...
Biodynamic
DB8392-17
Montesecondo – Sangiovese IGT Toscana
Sangiovese from Tuscany, Italy
100% Sangiovese. Silvio has two separate properties: both are in the San Casciano zone of Chianti Classico but are at opposite ends of it and quite different in nature. The original family-owned vineyard, generally referred to as "Montesecondo", is the lower-altitude, warmer, more-clay-soiled one...
Biodynamic
DB0592-18
Montesecondo – Trebbiano Anfora Tïn
Trebbiano from Tuscany, Italy
Trebbiano + small percentage of co-planted Malvasia. Silvio has  2 separate properties: both are in the San Casciano zone of Chianti Classico but are at opposite ends of it and quite different in nature. The original family-owned vineyard, generally referred to as "Montesecondo", is  the lower-...
Biodynamic
DB0553-18
Ampeleia – Unlitro IGT Costa Toscana
Red blend from Tuscany, Italy
This wine is a blend of varieties originating from the Mediterranean Basin— 50% Alicante Nero (aka Grenache), 20% Carignano, 15% Mourvedre, 15% Sangiovese, 5% Alicante Bouschet—sourced from vineyards at 180-250 meters above sea level. The fruit was harvested from the 10th to the 25th of September...
Biodynamic
DB6278-18
Sanguineto – Vino Nobile di Montepulciano
Sangiovese from Tuscany, Italy
Prugnolo Gentile/Canaiolo Nero/Mammolo. Prugnolo Gentile is the variant of Sangiovese in and around Montepulciano and is the majority of the blend, as is traditional and required by law (70% minimum). All of the fruit is from organically farmed estate vines, many of them quite old, and all of them...
Organic
DB0129-16