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...

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...

100% Vernaccia. 2019 is the first vintage for this wine, which is part of Silvio Messana’s new small-project négoce line (bottled under his rather than the Montesecondo estate name and in clear glass with a crown cap). The grapes came from an organic vineyard in San Gimignano, planted on sandy clay...

90% Sangiovese/10% Canaiolo & Colorino (co-planted as is traditional in Chianti). Montesecondo comprises two separate properties: both are biodynamically farmed and both lie in the San Casciano zone of Chianti Classico but are quite different from each other. The original family vineyard,...

70% Frappato/30% Nero d'Avola. The two varietals are native to Sicily and are grown on red sand soils over limestone rock, with vines averaging 15 years old on four different sites. The vines are organically farmed and hand-harvested. The fruit is mainly destemmed (4% stem inclusion in the upcoming...

50% Frappato/50% Nero d'Avola. Grotte Alte is Arianna's only DOCG wine, in this case Vittoria's most famous, Cerasuolo di Vittoria, a blend of the best native varietals, Nero d'Avola and Frappato. "Grotte Alte" is named for the limestone ridges on which the Occhipinti estate lies, straddling and...

100% Pinot Grigio. This "fuoripista"  or "off-the-track" Pinot Grigio is so named partly because of Elisabetta’s unconventional choice to let it macerate with skins for 8 months in clay amphorae. The fruit is sourced from an old pergola-trained vineyard of alluvial sand and gravel soils worked...

100% Nosiola. An ancient local variety, Nosiola has made a small comeback from near-extinction, thanks in large part to Foradori, who farms 2 hectares of it on clay-limestone soils in the Fontanasanta hills above Trento. Destemmed but not pressed: whole berries ferment spontaneously and age in clay...

100% Teroldego. Cilindrica is the same wine as the “normal” Morei (see details under the Morei entry) but it is racked out of the first amphora, where it spends 8 months on the skins, to spend another year in a slimmer, smaller, cilindrically shaped amphora for another year of aging.

90% Teroldego/10% other (primarily Lagrein). Lezèr ("light" in local dialect) was a new bottling born of the terrible 2017 vintage, when the fruit from the vines that go into the basic Foradori red bottling was devastated by a summer hailstorm. What fruit could be salvaged and ripened was turned...

A blend of 90% Syrah and 10% Viognier.

Fifty-two percent old-vine Carignan, forty percent Syrah, five percent Cabernet Sauvignon, three percent Semillon. Crushed by foot and fermented whole-cluster.  120 cases produced. 

The Syrah comes from two vineyards off of North Canyon Road in El Dorado County. 65% from Fenaughy vineyard (volcanic soils) and 35% from Barsotti (decomposed granite). Aged in old wood. 

Fenaughty Vineyard, at roughly 2800 feet elevation, is located in the Apple Hill District above Placerville, in El Dorado County. The soil at Fenaughty is Aiken-Loam, a dark-red, well-drained soil type of volcanic origin. 

Tempranillo from the slate and limestone soils of Rorick Heritage Vineyard in the Sierra Foothills. Aptly named for the wine's extended élevage - 24 months in 600L puncheons with an additonal 8 months in bottle. This wine is on the more robust side of the La Clarine range, with a great depth of...