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 →
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 →
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 →
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 →
You’ve always wanted an Erbaluce to knock your socks off, right? Here it is from the Erbaluce di Caluso DOC not far from Torino. This is a stunning wine. It... read more →
Monferrato in the Piemonte region has many varied terroirs and one of them is Gamalero, an hour and twenty minutes south of Malpensa. The soils are sandy and silty. There... 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 →