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 →
Ferdinando makes three different Barolos. This is his most early drinking. From 3.5 acres of younger vines (20 years old) in the Serralunga Boscareto vineyard. It’s aged for 24 months... read more →
A totally stainless approach to nebbiolo, from forty-year-old vines in the Le Coste di Monforte d’Alba vineyards as well as some younger vines—destined to grow up into barolo, from the... read more →
Mountain nebbiolo is to die for, and the slopes are so steep some actually do. This Grumello, from slate and limestone soils, bottles a sublime example of grape and place.... read more →
Elio Sandri has beautiful vineyards and in the nubile spring, as I saw them last year, they are filled with daisies. This is a quiet, modest house and the grapes,... read more →
Giovanni’s plot is in Barolo, from a vineyard high on the town’s slope. He is the only producer who makes a single bottling from the fruit. Beneath his home, he... read more →
From the land that I love up in the Alto Piemonte in the rarely seen DOC of Coste della Sesia, comes a wine that is so AF typical. It speaks... read more →
Meet a new crush! If there were a quintessential Alice wine, this would be it. At first it was stinky but with a decant, okay, let’s say the next day,... read more →
The past event coordinator for Slow Foods brought this to dinner when I was in Emilia. He also brought a big, fat, stinky, gorgeous truffle. So I suppose I 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 →