Piemonte Wine

Dominico Clerico launched his career as an iconic Barolo master with this wine – a humble Dolcetto. He inherited three hectares of Dolcetto vines in 1976 and released his first vintage in 1978. He’d go on to purchase... Read More

Per Food & Wine, there are at least 3 Good Reasons Why Cocchi Rosa Should Always Be in Your Fridge. It's made from Piemonte red wines infused with gentian, citrus peel, and rose petal. It's a terrific change of pace from... Read More

Barolo Chinato was created in the 1890s as a digestif – to be drunk after a big meal to help digestion (and get ready to eat more the next day!). It starts with quinine bark, rhubarb, ginger, cardamom, cocoa, and a variety... Read More

Lower ABV If you don’t know Arneis, then this is the perfect introduction to the white grape of Barolo and the sandier vineyards of the Roero hills next door. And if you do know Arneis and are used to paying $20-$25 for... Read More

Organic/Bio These organically cared for vines know how to give a balanced wine with lots of flavors that will make you want to take a second sip almost immediately. It’s full of fresh violets, blackberries, crushed cherries... Read More

As Wine Advocate says, G.D. Vajra earns top scores for its perfectly designed portfolio of Piedmont wines. Well balanced against various price points (and all very reasonable), the estate offers excellent high-end Barolos from... Read More

Lower ABV A rich and creamy style of Moscato with good closing grip. As Vinous wrote in their 90 point review of the 2017, Very pure, high-pitched aromas of lemon ice, pineapple, gooseberry, orange flowers and tarragon. Densely... Read More

Erbaluce has been an important white wine grape in northern Piemonte, Italy, since at least the 1600s, although where it comes from, nobody knows. Luigi Ferrando crafts one of the very best examples, letting his fruit ripen beautifully... Read More

Lower ABV You may well remember that the original “recipe” for Tuscany’s Chianti Classico included the famed Sangiovese blended with softer red grapes and a splash of white grapes to balance Sangiovese’s... Read More

Organic/Bio Although the Serraboella vineyard – along with Montestefano – produces very “Barolo-like” wines, this release of the Paitin family’s flagship Nebbiolo matches that power with lovely Barbaresco... Read More

Organic/Bio The Paitin familiy has been growing grapes in Piemonte since 1796. With the first vintage of this wine dating back to 1893. Sorì in italian is the first place where the snow melts with the first winter sun rays... Read More

Most of the fruit comes from vines on sandy soil at the bottom of Paitin's Serraboella vineyard in Barbaresco with some from a second site in Alba as well. The sandy soils make this a lovely, drink now, expression of Paitin's... Read More

Lower ABV From the Picollo family's home village of Rovereto in the heart of the Gavi di Gavi DOCG, this is pretty much the essence of the region’s native white grape, Cortese. One notch cooler in tone than the regular... Read More

Lower ABV Since 1949, the Picollo family has grown grapes in just one place - the Piemonte's Gavi region - and made just three wines: Gavi, Gavi di Gavi, and a barrel-aged Gavi di Gavi. With that much practice and focus, it's... Read More

Pora's mineral-rich clay/limestone soils and sunny exposure tends to give wines of muscular power and deep minerality. In sunny 2017, this is one of the most open and satisfyingly fleshy of the Produttori's Riservas.... Read More

100% Nebbiolo – the great, majestic, grape of Italy’s Piemonte region – from the Barolo commune of Serralunga d’Alba. With its old Serravallian (what we used to call Helvetian) soils of sandstone and sand,... Read More

Organic/Bio Basarin in dialect means sun-kissed, and this famed vineyard on the border between the zone of Neive and Treiso seldom struggles to achieve full ripeness. But there's a bit of altitude here as well, adding a layer... Read More

Organic/Bio Rino Sottimano's first vineyard, purchased in the late 1960s, It's planted to vines 50-70 years old and has been farmed without chemicals since Rino bought it. It's between the Neive and Barbaresco areas,... Read More

Organic/Bio Curra is also in Neive, but this uniques site produces a remarkably different wine. As Vinous says, A firm, wiry expression of structure and floral aromatics define the mid-weight Barbarescos of Currà. There... Read More

Organic/Bio From 45 year-old vines just outside the town of Neive on clay/sand soils, Fausoni is always the most darkly fruited wine from Sottimano. But dark doesn't equal heavy or overpowered here. Something like darkly elegant... Read More

Organic/Bio In Treiso, well to the south of most other famed Barbaresco Crus, Pajore balances the zone's cooler, fresher, climate with a steep southerly exposure and the intensity of 50-70 year-old vines. Very, very, Barbaresco... Read More

Organic/Bio One of the finest Barbera's made in Barbaresco, this comes from two different vineyards in Neive: Basarin and San Cristoforo. The south and west expositions allow for excellent ripeness and intensity of flavor,... Read More

Organic/Bio Lower ABV Dolcetto is supposed to be fun and just-right for lunch and casual foods. And that's what you get here in this wonderfully fruit-filled example that serves of big blackberry and black raspberry fruit... Read More

Lower ABV From the heart of Piemonte's Monferrato region, the Fracchia family's southwest-facing vines are bathed in sunshine - the winery name Sulin is dialect for sunny. This is certainly a sunny white blend of Sauvignon... Read More

One of the finest Barbera in all of Italy whether enjoyed now or with a decade-plus in cellar. Really good stuff.