Italian Red Wine between $50 and $75

Lower ABV Founded in 1908, forty families contribute the fruit from their tiny plots of Nebbiolo to this very traditional co-op winery in northern Piedmont. The bright, fresh, fruit ferments and macerates 30 days with native yeast... Read More

Antonio Galloni's 95 point review in Vinous is accurate enough for where this beauty was when he tasted it last summer: The 2021s were brought in from late September to early October, a pretty classic time frame by today's... Read More

One of the great stories in Alto Piemonte as new owners purchased a semi-abandoned Nebbiolo vineyard in 2004 and nursed it back to life. This 2016 is ready to roar. As Vinous says in the 95 point rave, “The 2016 Bramaterra... Read More

From one of Barbaresco’s best sites, this is super elegant and even Burgundian Nebbiolo redolent of sweet red fruits and loads of complex earth and spice accents. A cool ferment and relatively short stay in large cask –... Read More

It's tempting to market this with a Gaja connection - Giordano shares the amphitheater-sharped Cavanna vineyard with Gaja, who blends the wine into its normale Barbaresco. But the style here is kind of anti-Gaja, all about... Read More

Organic/Bio Barbaresco's Serraboella vineyard – along with Montestefano – produces very “Barolo-like” wines, and here Paitin captures that power and tames it with a layer of finesses. From certified... Read More

The best-known slice of Alto-Piemonte nestles up against the Alps and delivers a lighter, perfumed take on Barolo's Nebbiolo. This is from 50 year-old Nebbiolo vines and finished with 36 months in French oak tonneaux. Classic... Read More

Nicola Argamante was born in Tuscany, grew up in Piemonte, and was a well respected consulting winemaker there for years before he and his wife, Loredana, founded their own winery. Over 30 acres of vines, they make around 7,000... Read More

Organic/Bio Aglianico is Campania’s most important red grape and examples from the Taurasi region show so much power, intensity, and cellar potential they’ve come to be called “the Barolo of the south.”... Read More

This big, dark, extracted Brunello that's still showing a bit of spice from it's 24 months in small, mostly new, French oak. And you should probably wait a year or two before digging in...but, wow! Is it ever impressive... Read More

Sure, let’s sell a $60 wine from a place most don’t know and a winery NO ONE has ever heard of! But it’s just so very, very, good. The place is Valtellina in the Alpine mountains of northern Lombardy, the grape... Read More

Organic/Bio With San Lorenzo, one of Terre Nere’s three Grande Terroir Ellittico wines, so designated because of their very rare and pure volcanic sand soils from the Ellittico eruptions dating from 15,000 to 60,000 years... Read More