2016 marks the first release of Gagliardo’s Barolo del Comune di La Morra. It is a selection of fruit from the vineyards adjacent to the cellar, the crus of Santa Maria and Serra dei Turchi. This area of La Morra has some of the youngest soils in the Barolo zone, which impart more immediate...

50% Barbera/50% Dolcetto (a strain of it called Nibio). From biodynamically farmed estate parcels with iron-rich clay and limestone soils. The bunches are harvested manually and mainly destemmed with up to 20% left as whole clusters. Fermentation is spontaneous with zero sulfur in 2500-liter...

40% Corvina/30% Corvinone/ 20% Rondinella/10% Molinara & Oseleta. Monte dall’Ora’s Camporenzo vineyard is a few kilometers from the home vineyard but is similar in its hilliness and its crumbly limestone soils over limestone rock. The Venturini family planted it with traditional Valpolicella...

90% Sangiovese/10% Colorino-Canaiuolo. From certified-biodynamic vines in San Casciano in Val di Pesa at the northern edge of the Chianti Classico zone. The fruit comes from two sites--one lower-lying, warmer, with heavier clay soils with alluvial stones, the other much higher, cooler, north-facing...

100% Syrah, a portion of which are partially de-stemmed, while some are left whole and still others are lightly foot pressed. Fermentation occurs spontaneously in small concrete vats and without the use of pumps, sulfur or temperature control.  The wine is then allowed to clarify naturally and is...

100% Nero d'Avola. From multiple, certified-organic parcels with vines averaging 35 years old, planted on red-sandy, limestone soils and trained in alberello and guyot. The bunches are hand-harvested and destemmed with the berries left whole. Fermentation is spontaneous with native yeasts in 20-...

"Yorgo" is a rare red wine from a mere 5 rows of vines, a co-plantation of Georgian varietals grown and farmed biodynamically for years right around the winery at Foradori. The grapes include Rkatsiteli (white), Mtsvane (white), Khikhvi (white), Saperavi (black), Mujuretuli (black), Aleksandrouli (...

Mr. Tomato Man! 85% Sangiovese and 15% Cabernet Sauvignon, sourced from Tuscan vineyards. Pizza wine unparalleled. Spaghetti wine sine qua non. Caprese wine capo di capi tutti. With its enticing black fruit aroma and luscious mouthfeel, this is about the most fun you can have with a bottle of wine...

Rosso dei Politici is the ripe, soft, gulpable red wine of Abruzzo, made from 100% Montepulciano grown in vineyards around Loreto Aprutino, half-way between the Apennine mountains and the Adriatic sea. Fermented in steel and aged in huge old barrels, it’s a richer wine than expected, a delicious...