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The ANDUMA! range is an introduction to Piedmont; a vibrant viticultural region in the northwest of Italy that boasts some of the country’s best wines. In conjunction with a traditional family operation, we have bottled three typical wines of the area. The Dolcetto and the Langhe Nebbiolo are both unoaked, precise and definitive of their variety. Anduma! Barbaresco DOCG is fruit forward and utterly delicious, with classic faded red flowers and a suitably structured tannin profile.
'Lively and bright expression … more
Antica Torino is a partnership and project of passion between Vittorio Zoppi and Umbrian wine maker Filippo Antonelli. Rather than seeking out the exotic, often imported botanicals that go into more modern styled vermouth, Antica Torino takes a page out of the history books, a time when vermouth was created utilizing what was readily available locally. The decision was made to produce a vermouth that was "of the garden", packed with fresh rosemary, bay laurel, thyme, oregano, wormwood, gentian, rhubarb, … more
The nose of this Solaia is truly phenomenal with currants, blackberries, rose and violets. So perfumed. Full bodied and everything is in check and harmony with polished tannins that last for minutes. Purity and focus. Is it the greatest Solaia ever? So drinkable already, but this is a wine for ages ahead.
100 Points, James Suckling.
Country: Italy
Region: Tuscany IGT
Ciliegiolo is an ancient relative of Sangiovese and has been grown in Tuscany's Maremma for centuries.
Principio is made from organically grown, forty year old Ciliegiolo vines at over 1000m altitude. Bright ruby in colour, yet very pale in intensity, this shows fresh, bright red cherry, raspberry and blueberry, fruit with violet top notes. Ripe (ripeness is rarely an issue in the Maremma), but dry and light-to-medium-bodied with zesty acids and minerality and firm tannins on the finish. This is … more
Made from 100% Chiavennasca (Nebbiolo).
Founded in 1984 by Arturo Pellizzatti Perego, Arpepe is a family business, work in the heroic viticulture of the steeply terraced vineyards of Valtellina, an alpine region. Nebbiolo here is called Chiavvenasca, play around elegance and finesse. This Cuvee comes from a single Zone the Grumello area, within a single vineyard Rocco Piro.
So this a minuscule production with 24 months aging in big Slavonian, and cherry cask. Nose of cherry, violet, sweet spice lots … more
Nero d'Avola 60%, Frappato 40%
Founded in 1980 by three friends, COS is today synonymous with Cerasuolo di Vittoria.
Already nominated as a likely legendary year for Barbaresco, and this does as expected. The three comunes do their bit; Barbaresco provides vivid red fruits, Treiso the flesh and plump, and Neive that tightening element, a core of darker fruits and disciplining structure. Perfect testimony to a great vintage. Similar vinification to the Nebb, with a few months more in the large botte.
Country: Italy
Region: Piedmont
Sub Region: Barbaresco
No chance to mistake this, with its abundance of darker things; stock, porcini, graphite, smoke and black cherry. Under this very typical Serralunga 'tarry/earthy' mantle though, are other complexities of dried roses, orange and spices. The firm and enlivening structure of a great Serralunga is here to underpin all this. Strong black tea tannins at present. All components are here.
Ripe red fruit, cherry, tea and liquorice. So deep and resonant, thick in flavour, earthy spicy and rolling with black tea tannin, opulent on the finish. Pow. This is it. 97 points, Gary Walsh, The Wine Front - February 2020
No chance to mistake this, with its abundance of darker things; stock, porcini, graphite, smoke and black cherry. Under this very typical Serralunga 'tarry/earthy' mantle though, are other complexities of dried roses, orange and spices. The firm and enlivening structure of a great Serralunga is here to underpin all this. Strong black tea tannins at present. All components are here.
'Mid ruby with broad orange rim. The typical fruit-driven Sordo approach, but with a mineral streak on the nose. Almost a little tarry on the palate. Signature Sordo intensity of fruit on the palate. Much richer style compared with Giuseppe Mascarello. Richly tannic too.'
Walter Speller, jancisrobinson.com, 16.5+ points
The star cru of an otherwise workmanlike comune, this is exactly why Monvigliero is so widely appreciated. It has the range of generous Barolo things; cherry and strawberry notes now, probably in youthful mode, but with the usual cherry-skin, raisin and smoky elements just apparent. Overall such an ambassador for Barolo, just this side of generous and more approachable, but with correct shape and grip.
Ammasso means a traditional winemaking technique that still today is used to vinify the best parcels in Sicily. This wine is a blend of Nero d'Avola, Nerello Mascalese, Merlot & Cabernet Sauvignon.
Benanti offers a great introduction to some of the beautiful wines from Mount Etna, showing to promise of important indigenous grapes such as Nerello Mascalese and Nerello Cappuccio.
Nerello Mascalese and Nerello Cappuccio are at home at the high altitude of the Etna volcano and gives wines that are fragrant and mineral-driven. Rose petal and light berry aromas blur and soften the lines of those pretty mineral notes that are so strong at the beginning. The juicy palate evokes red … more
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