Another great find from the Indie Wineries people. This smacked of old world rusticity in the best possible authentic way. The story here is that the grapes went to Giacosa... read more →
Talk about a wine growing on you. Over a period of four days, this really crawled into my bed. At first pop the fruit subdued nicely, impressed by the balance.... read more →
Worth blowing the piggy bank for this and speaking to your wine merchant to see if they can save you a few bottles. Barolo of this quality is hard to... read more →
Last year I profiled a crazy dude making crazy wine in Zona del Barbaresco who had a composter he called “the mother shit.” He likened cutting the tips of his... read more →
A 25-year-old vineyard. The wine is raised one year in glass demi-johns and/or porcelain egg-like contraptions of his own design. The wine has an iron vibrant, edgy—make that very edgy.... read more →
Remember that 2015 was a year when the grape skins thickened. This wine sure shows it with a firmness that will need another year to soften up. The pelaverga here... read more →
The Roero, long-underperfoming, will rise again, especially if it’s championed by people like Luca Faccenda. Luca’s vines are in the valley between Canale and Cisterna and all around are twisty... read more →
A very nice entry from a winery that does little wrong. Do carry on the arneis exploration to see if it’s worth the bottle it’s plunked in. Tongue tantalizing. Textural... read more →
Francesco’s father Luigi brought the estate to biodynamics in 1965. The first in Italy. At one time, his hills were all vines but to enter into biodynamics, they needed biodiversity.... 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 →