Principiano’s attention to detail, the elegance, everything gets me every time in every bottle. This Barolo is from his part of the Boscareto vineyard, a secret, foresty place full of... read more →
Fabio Gea doesn’t get any more sane as the years go by, but the wines I believe get better and better. My first sip of this was a complete wow.... read more →
Stunner! This was the talk of the tasting in Roero. Just a beauty from bought grapes near Nieve. Elegant. Refined. Cherry dusted with plaster of Paris in a very, very... read more →
Ivano Barbaglia and his wife Paola have 2.5 hectares of vines. They work at 400 meters in the tiny DOP of Boca in a combination of the traditional maggiorina and... read more →
I met Matteo, one of the partners involved with this extreme project, on the alternative nebbiolo wine tour in 2020. The reclamation of heroic steep vineyards—they look like Roman ruins—was... read more →
Nebbiolo acts like a different animal in the heavier clay hills of Monferrato; farming is a little more complicated, and there is certainly more wildness. But wildness and finesse live... read more →
The Conti sisters started to take over Castello Conti during their father’s 2001 illness and then ultimately after his death. This is a traditional house, in the best sense. This... read more →
I don’t think Ferdinando Principiano can ever disappoint me. I suppose if the price doubled, that could do it, but meanwhile he gives an elegant, expressive, delicious Barolo at a... read more →
Sterling Whitted is Holden and has been since the 2011 vintage. I met him at the fabulous meet-and-greet in Oregon back in June and have to say I’m pretty impressed... read more →
The Sera family works in Valtellina on seven steep hectares of vineyards of magical glacial rock in San Giacomo di Teglio. This is their entry level wine that ain’t so... read more →