A selection from Gagliardo’s 0.86ha plot in Lazzarito, from the village of Serralunga d’Alba. Harvest was on October 11th. Macerations lasted 12 days. Aging was in a single French oak botte of 2000L for 30 months. 2,376 bottles made. Gagliardo’s plot within the cru is historically known as Preve....

Gagliardo owns 1.30ha of Mosconi in Monforte d’Alba. Most of the fruit goes into the ‘Gianni Gagliardo’ blended bottling, but a small selection of the best fruit makes a single-cru Mosconi. Harvest was on October 10th. Macerations lasted 12 days. Aging was in a three 228L neutral French barrels (...

Schiavenza’s 0.9 hectares in the Prapò cru are located at 350m above sea level, with southeast exposure; the vines were planted in 1993.  Of all their crus, this is the one in which the soil is most representative of Serralunga: its high percentage of light-colored limestone naturally limits yields...

In select vintages, Schiavenza will make a Barolo Riserva from either Prapò or Broglio. Broglio is Schiavenza's largest cru holding.  They have 1.5 hectares there.  Exposure (like all of Schiavenza's crus) is Southeast.  360-380m above sea level.There is a bit more clay in the topsoil here, so...

Produced exclusively in magnum, the Serra dei Turchi bottling represents the apex of the estate’s single-vineyard bottlings. This is the vineyard where the Gagliardo brothers’ grandfather, Paolo Colla, began making Barolo, in 1961. Fruit from this 0.85ha site is also picked for the Gianni Gagliardo...

Aged in 30 and 53 gallon new char #3 american oak barrels for over 16 months, this gin toes the line between a young whiskey in color and texture and a prominent gin in flavor and aroma.  The vibrant botanical bouquet is complicated with layers of silky vanilla, brown sugar and spice.  The burnt...

The Beau! Beaujolais comes from a forty year-old high-density vineyard. Fermentation is traditional, 100% whole-cluster. The whole bunches are not destemmed and go into vats after a maceration of 6-8 days. The wine is aged in stainless steel or cement vats until bottling in the Spring.

100% Chardonnay. On his home estate in Charnay in southern Beaujolais, Brun planted Chardonnay in 1983 on the sandy, limestone-rich clay soils. The vines are organically farmed and the fruit harvested by hand. The grapes are destemmed, crushed and fermented with natural yeasts in vat. The wine goes...

100% Gamay. L'Ancien comes from Jean Paul's oldest vines--hence the name of the wine--in his home village of Charnay in the southern Beaujolais. They range in age from 40 to 60 years old and are planted on slopes sporting the area's signature sandy clay-limestone soils, featuring the particular...

100% Gamay. Direct-press rosé from the most productive Gamay vines in Brun's estate vineyards in Charnay in the southern Beaujolais. Concrete-aged on its lees with malolactic fermentation and a little bâtonnage. Solid medium body and rosy pink with vibrant, crisp acidity and a chalky mineral finish...

NEW YORK ONLY. Because of the proximity to the surrounding, shallow lakes, the beerenauslese has 85 - 90% botrytis in 2017. Gerhard Kracher points out that there is good botrytis and bad botrtyis. The best conditions happen in a warm year, when the grapes are ripe and botrytis can set quickly when...

The original Benrinnes was sited almost a mile south-east of today’s distillery. Built on the Whitehouse Farm in 1826 by Peter McKenzie, the distillery was completely destroyed just three years later, after a great flood laid waste to the buildings. In 1835, a new distillery was built, sited on the...

Sourced from all of the estate's parcels, as each plot has at least some white grapes in it. Vineyards were planted between 1959 and 1999 at 6,000 plants/ha.  In 2018, the blend is essentially equal parts Cortese, Favorita, and Timorasso, with trace elements of Moscato Bianco and Giallo.   Aside...

40% Ginestra, 40% Biancatenera, and 20% Pepella. The grapes come from 5 different parcels totaling 1.2 hectares, between 270 and 600m, with soil rich in volcanic pumice. The vines are planted in pergola and range from 25-100+ years old. The Harvest was on September 22, 2017 at very low yields of 2,...

85% Trebbiano Spoletino/15% Grechetto. From biodynamically farmed, certified-organic, hand-harvested estate fruit. Fermentation occurs with native yeasts in open-topped tank with no temperature control and no sulfur. The Trebbiano is macerated with the skins for two days; the Grechetto sees no skin...

Pronounced "bane doo", the name means "black mountain". Begins its life as Trutinā from Speyside Distillery; matured in American bourbon barrels and then finished in heavily toasted port casks from The Douro Valley.  

The picturesque Pitlochry-based distillery lies close to Edradour and is unconnected with the simarly spelt town, Blair Atholl. Blair Athol changed hands several times during the 1800s and eventually closed in 1932. A year later the distillery was acquired by Arthur Bell and Sons and today as much...

100% Chardonnay. The fruit for this bottling comes from a single parcel called Le Murtet (not on the label) in the Boulards' home village of Cormicy, which lies in the extreme NE of the Montagne de Reim in a zone known as the Massif de Saint-Thierry. The vines are 60-80 years old and are planted on...

A blend of ninety percent Listán Blanco, with ten percent Albillo Criollo, added for a burst of acidity. A bit over half of the fruit is grown at 500 meters of altitude, with the rest grown at 250 meters altitude. Hand-harvested and carried to the winery in small boxes of fifteen kilograms to avoid...

100% Malvasía de Sitges planted in 1999 on rich alluvial soils. Fermented in stainless and aged for 8 months on its lees.

The winery named this Blaufränkisch after family fathers Béla Wachter and Jóska Wiesler; the fruit is from each family's vineyards in Deutsch-Scheützen and Eisenberg. The vines average between thirty and fifty years old. Aged for thirteen months in large wooden barrels (500 – 3000 liters).  2,500...

New! Starting with the 2017 vintage, Wachter-Wiesler began bottling two village-level wines, offering a middle ground between the Bela-Joska which gives a good idea of Eisenberg region and the show-stopping single-vineyard wines. The Eisenberg comes from three sites on the famous Eisenberg hill:...

Eisenberg DAC Reserve. Out of a total of the 30 hectares in this vineyard, Wachter-Wiesler farms five, at an elevation ranging from 250-300m above sea-level. With iron-rich clay, the soil characteristics here are quite similar to those of the feet of the Eisenberg. Matured for 18 months in a single...

Bonarda vine cuttings were brought to Argentina by Italian immigrants from Piedmont in the late 1800s. Current thinking suggests that what is known as Bonarda in Argentina is in fact not related to the Italian grape of the same name, but instead to Dolcetto. Héctor and Pablo are passionate about...