Mantilari, a difficult and demanding variety, manages to give its best here. Its vinification results in an easy-to-drink wine, considering the character of the variety. The first stage involves bleeding, with the juice being used for the winery's rosé, thus enhancing the body and volume of the red. Extraction lasts only 6 days, limiting excessive tannin...
Dolcetto d’ Alba by the Vajra’s is produced by privately owned vineyards of the estatethat are no more than 25 years of age. The extraction doesn’t go beyond fifteen days and the wine ages for a few months in stainless steel tanks before it is bottled in the beginning of the spring following harvest. This is a feast of black cherry and plum aromas that...
A fifty-year-old vineyard that shines thanks to the efforts of Panagiotis and his ancestorsto help it live effectively and without chemical interference. It is nature itself that is radiant and seeing it makes you realize the importance of standing a step back, observing carefully and listening to the needs of nature. She in turn reciprocates with a wine...
Penetrating tensions with beautiful oxidation supported by notes of citrus peel and candied lemon. Give it time to open up and it will throw a party of aromas with saffron and curry, tobacco leaves, nuts such as walnuts and roasted almonds, and earthy notes of truffle. Full of umami on the palate, minerality reminiscent of peat and shellfish, intense...
It is not only the old stumps but also the clonal diversity and biodiversity, which is the reason for the exceptional complexity of wines from such vineyards. The above, combined with the slow natural vinification and the Tatsis brothers' non-intrusive approach to the winery, result in a wine that has excellent layering and multiple layers in the glass....
For more structure and minerality turn to Marcel Lapierre's Morgon, but here, from the family's second estate (which after Marcel Lapierre's death is run by his wife with Jean Claude Chadunet) you will taste a more accessible, fruity example of Beaujolais typical of the cru of Brouilly. The wine is produced from old vines, which are grown using organic...
This wine draws on the tradition of Piemonte but equally of Burgundy. On the sandy soils of Lessona, Nebbiolo acquires a bouquet of aromas like rose, wild cherry and wild grapefruit with notes of tobacco, dried herbs and lively mineral dimension. On the palate its tannins are firm but velvety; the acidity is delicious same as the earthy dimension of the...
