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2018 Dirupi - Valtellina Superiore DOCG Vigna Gess
The 2018 Valtellina Superiore Grumello Riserva is an intensely mineral, savory wine. Dried herbs, chalk, incense, crushed flowers and spice are nicely delineated. This is an especially taut, austere style. There is plenty of personality, but readers sh...
2019 Donnafugata - Sicilia Rosso DOC Nero d'Avola Mille e Una Notte
The 2019 Sicilia Mille e Una Notte is a blend of Nero d'Avola, Petit Verdot, Syrah and other complementary grapes. Tasted quite young, this wine needs more age and certainly another year or two in bottle. The oak spice needs more time to melt into the bea...
2019 Donnafugata - Terre Siciliane Rosso IGT Tancredi
Black berries and dark leather with some crushed slate and blue fruits on the nose. Some dark mushrooms. It’s full-bodied and chewy with lots of toasted oak. Rich and flavorful but remains linear and fresh. Drink after 2025.
2021 Donnafugata - Passito di Pantelleria DOC Ben Rye HALF BOTTLE
2022 Felluga, Livio - Collio DOC Pinot Grigio
Attractive aromas of nectarines and pears with spices, dried flowers, chalk and crushed rocks. Medium-bodied, sleek and juicy, with the textural feeling of ripe stone fruit. Very approachable and seductive. Creamy finish. Drink now. Screw cap.
2015 Feudi di San Gregorio - Irpinia DOC Aglianico Serpico
There are darker tones of purple and black fruit and some savory chocolate flavors as well in the 2015 Irpinia Aglianico Serpico. This is an ambitious and deeply layered wine that peels back to reveal more spice, tar and volcanic ash hidden deep within it...
2019 Feudo Maccari - Sicilia Rosso DOC Nero d'Avola Saia
A dark and brooding mix of tobacco, plum sauce, rubbed sage and smoke smoulders up from the 2019 Nero d’Avola Saia. It’s soft and enveloping with ripe black fruits and balsamic spices that resonate throughout. This leaves a bitter hint of cacao and traces...