VITICULTORI PONTE, Piave

Grown in the gravelly soil on the banks of the River Piave, the Piave DOC, provides a favourable climate that creates wines with strong territorial identity and typicality – lively fruit, crisp acidity and enough complexity to keep you coming back for more.

2010 Pinot Grigio Campo Dhei	$17.95	12/750ml
Prosecco NV	$17.95	12/750ml

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I MORI, Lastra a Signa Florence

I Mori’s Chianti couldn’t be more benchmark in its style. Sweet and sour red fruit, tobacco, leather and some fresh rustic tannins create a combination that works exceptionally well with food.

2007 Chianti Colli Fiorentini

$16.95

12/750ml

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TORRE QUARTO, Cerignola, Pulia

Torre Quarto winery was built by the French Dukes De la Rochefoucauld, in 1847. Today, Torre Quarto is an excellent source for value-priced wines that capture the unique qualities of Puglia's fascinating indigenous grape varieties

2009 Tarabuso Primitivo IGT Puglia	$21.95	12/750ml
2008 Bottaccia Uva Nero Di Troia IGT Puglia	$16.95	12/750 ml

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SAN FABIANO De CALCINAIA, Castellina in Chianti (Siena)

We love bringing these wines into consignment for our customers. The Riservas and regular Classicos are fully appreciated and admired by those who have had the opportunity to enjoy them. These wines are massive, intense and very pure expressions of the terroir. .

2008 Boschino IGT	$23.95	12/750ml
Chianti Classico DOCG	$26.95	12/750ml
It ages in barrels of 2nd and 3rd passage for a period of 12 months and then it stays in the bottle at least three months. It is the synthesis of Chianti tradition: land and vines combined with modern winemaking and more time for quality. Suitable for consumption, however, it improves after a medium period of ageing.
2008 Cellole Reserva Classico Chianti DOCG	$38.95	12/750ml

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PAITIN, Neive Barbaresco

Paitin dates back to 1796 when Benedetto Elia purchased from Luigi Pellissero the farmstead with outlying wine cellar and vineyards. His son Giuseppe extended later vineyards and acquired the underground cellar, dating back to XV century. The first bottle of Barbaresco del Sori Paitin  was produced in 1898 and Sori Paitin has been exporting wine since 1898. After years of laying dormant the Enterprise started full activity in 1965 again with Secondo Pasquero-Elia, who built a new wine cellar, replanted the vineyards and acquired new vines. Today Paitin produces incredible wines from one of our favorite wine regions – Piemonte.

2008 Barbera d'Alba Campolive DOGC Piemonte	$28.95	12/750ml
Robert Parker, 90-92 points. The 2008 Campolive, tasted from barrel, impresses for its length and a mineral-driven finish that adds considerable complexity to the well delineated fruit. I expect it to be quite beautiful once it’s in the bottle. Anticipated maturity 2012-2018
2007 Paitin Barbaresco Serra Boella	$35.95	6/750ml
Robert Parker, 93 points. The 2007 Serra Boella is simply beuatiful. Fresh, floral aromatics and high-tone red berries come together in a rich sensual style. This shows terrific density all the way through to the soft enveloping close. This is an unusually feminine elegant wine from Paitin, endowed with a gorgeous, finely knit texture that is super-impressive. Anticipated maturity 2012-2027.
2006 Sori Paitin Barbaresco Vecchie Vigne	$75.00	6/750ml
Robert Parker, 92 points. The 2006 Vecchie Vigne flows with dark cherries, smoke, tar , leather and licorice in a fairly full-bodies style for the vintage. It possesses terrific density and energy that flows through effortlessly to the finish. The wine turns darker in the glass as smoke, tar and licorice notes take on greater prominence adding further weight. This is another fabulous wine from Paitin. Anticipated maturity 2014-2026.
2004 Sori Paitin Barbaresco Vecchie Vigne	$85.00	6/750ml
Robert Parker, 94 points. The 2004 Sori Paitin Vecchie Vigne is marvelous. Dark red berries, crushed flowers, smoke, ash and tar are just some of the notes that emerge from this big yet beautifully articulated Vecchie Vigne. The 2004 shows superb class and fabulous overall balance. As always this is a fairly large-scale Barbaresco but all of the elements meld together beautifully. A long, sensual finish rounds things out in style. With air the 2004 is approachable today but it clearly has the stuffing and freshness to drink well to age 25 perhaps beyond. Anticipated maturity 2012-2029.

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ELIO GRASSO, Monforte d'Alba

The Elio Grasso estate has a productive vineyard holding of 14 hectares in the town of Monforte d'Alba. The focal point where the Alba Langhe meets Dogliano and the Upper Langhe, Monforte is acknowledged as one of the great capitals of Barolo, to whose production area it has historically belonged. Barolo at Monforte can draw on a number of prestigious vineyards with a range of soil types and variously-aspected locations. The wines combine structure with elegance, aromatic finesse, solid character and exceptional ageing potential. The cellar uses only estate-grown grapes from varieties traditionally grown, with excellent, award winning results.

2007 Gavarini Vigna Chiniera	$95.00	6/750ml
Robert Parker, 93+ points. Chiniera opens with an exotic bouquet of candied red fruit, flowers, mint and minerals. This is an unusually opulent, racy style for Grasso. The Gavarini is a touch hot and alcoholic at first, but with several hours of air, that quality seemed to resolve itself nicely. Silky, beautifully integrated tannins frame a finish of exceptional elegance. The personality of the year marks the Gavarini to a significant degree. Anticipated maturity: 2015-2027. "These 2007 Baroli from Elio Grasso are worthy successors to the stunning 2006s. Readers will have to wait until 2012 for the 2006 Barolo Runcot. The more time passes, the greater my esteem grows for this underappreciated and often overlooked grower in Monforte. A recent magnum of the 2000 Runcot was quite possibly the finest and most elegant 100% new French oak-aged Barolo I have ever tasted. Grasso’s 2007s Baroli saw 30 days of contact on the skins followed by a full 30 months in large, neutral oak casks." Antonio Galloni, Robert Parker Wine Advocate

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Barbaresco, on the Langhe's hills, in an ancient farm of the last century, has its seat as "La Ca' Nova's Cellar". Here men and land have both followed the ups and downs of history and now find themselves come together in a unique path. Pietro, Giulio and Franco Rocca, the farm's owners, personally manages the vineyards which surround the farm on the hills. Vine gardens of Dolcetto, Barbera and Nebbiolo offer their best quality, due to the temperate climate of the Langhe and the soil's unique characteristics. Their enthusiasm and work is focused entirely on the vineyards, which cover an area of 13 hectares. Their care and respect for the environment and the ecosystem in which they operate, follow each growing phase of the grapes. The quantity is kept under rigorous control, to ensure a very high quality product. Elegant wines with strong character are the result of such care.

2007 La Ca Nova Barbaresco Bric Mentina

$45.00

6/750ml

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ARMANDO PARUSSO, Bussia

Cantina Parusso is located between the villages of Castiglione Falletto and Monforte d’Alba, in the hamlet of Bussia, on a hill called Bricco Rovella. Fourth generation winemakers, they produce wines of delicacy and elegance.

2007 Barolo DOCG Mariondino	$85.00	6/750ml
Robert Parker - 94 points 'The 2007 Barolo Mariondino is a huge overachiever in this vintage. The wine bursts from the glass with an explosive array of dark red raspberries, smoke, anise, dried roses and French oak. Deceptively medium in body, the Mariondino possesses superb depth and an intensity that carries through beautifully to the long, enveloping finish. Floral notes add the final flourishes. The Mariondino is a great example of a wine from a generally less-favored site that excels in 2007. Anticipated maturity: 2014-2027'
2007 Barolo DOCG Bussia	$95.00	6/750ml
Robert Parker - 94+ points. Michael Franz, Wine Review Online – 94 points. Gorgeously pure and strikingly deep and lasting in flavor, this is dark and dense and terrifically satisfying without ever seeming over-ripe or even overt. There’s plenty of high-quality oak in evidence, and likewise enough acidity and tannin to frame the flavors, yet the marvelous fruit grabs one’s attention and never surrenders center stage. With additional time to develop secondary aromas and flavors, this will likely ascend from excellent to extraordinary.
2007 Barolo DOCG Le Coste Mosconi	$95.00	6/750ml
Robert Parker – 93 points. Michael Franz, Wine Review Online – 97 points. This is a breathtakingly complex wine, with soft, deeply-flavored fruit that shows such expressiveness that it never fully yields to the prominent notes of oak and minerals that mark the tasting experience from the first whiff to the end of the persistent finish. Dark and dense, this is a big wine that will improve for many years, though it will also be very enjoyable during that span. Given how good the 2006 releases were, there’s no denying that Parusso is now rising to the top rank of Barolo producers, and here’s a telling indication: When I tasted this wine blind, its quality and specific character were so distinctive that I could suspect instantly that another wine tasted earlier in the same flight must be its stablemate, and indeed that wine turned out to be the Bussia bottling from Parusso. I note this not to trumpet a feat of discernment on my part (as anyone might have seen the resemblance), but rather to underline how strikingly distinctive these wines are.

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