The 2016 is the first vintage Elena Conti fermented and aged the Boca in a conical wooden tank. Of course 2016 is a beautiful vintage but the change still seems... read more →
I loved discovering this producer. This honey-scented wine has an old- fashioned church spicy thing going on. It’s got a little fizz from the trapped CO2, a touch of nutty... read more →
If you’re headed northeast from Alba, Bramaterra is on the way to the Milan airport in the Alto Piemonte. From younger vines than the DOC Bramaterra, this is partially aged... 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 →
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 →
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 →
This baby Bramaterra’s fruit is sourced from several young vineyards plus one, recently bought, with fifty-year-old vines. This charmer starts out life in concrete then heads to both stainless and... read more →
From Antoniotti’s porphyry soils, this is made from the oldest vines. The fruit gets three weeks ferment and three years aging in large botti of at least 1250 liters. The... read more →
Colombera & Garella is about twenty minutes south of Sostegno and a little further west of the Sesia River. The grapes get ten days maceration and six months of aging.... read more →
$45 for a Greek white wine? If you want a white that’s going to be brilliant, sing loudly with acid, get your biggest wine geek friend to actually say, wazzat?... read more →