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2021 Passopisciaro - Sicilia Rosso DOC Contrada Sciaranuova
The 2021 Contrada Sciaranuova (S) is a well-muscled dancer who enters the stage coy and withdraws, forcing the taster to work for its youthfully backward bouquet. Suggestions of dried roses, licorice, wild strawberries and clove are enshrouded by sweet...
2022 Passopisciaro - Sicilia Rosso DOC Contrada Rampante
The 2022 Etna Rosso Contrada Rampante is intense, wafting up with all of the volcanic ash and stones that make up its soils, complicated by grilled herbs and citrus-laced blackberries. This is surprisingly juicy and energetic in feel, with a wave of vi...
2022 Passopisciaro - Terre Siciliane Bianco IGT Passobianco
The 2022 Passobianco wafts up with a pretty and lifted air of wildflowers, chalk dust and a gentle tinge of spice. This opens with a lovely inner sweetness and ripe orchard fruits as traces of salty minerals and a bump of brisk acidity add balance. It ...
2020 Pepe, Emidio - Montepulciano d'Abruzzo DOC Branella
Dusty and floral, the 2020 Montepulciano d’Abruzzo Vecchie Vigne Branella slowly blossoms with a beguiling mix of crushed ashen stones, incense and dried roses lifted by a mentholated freshness. This is pure class, silky smooth and deeply expressive wi...
2020 Pepe, Emidio - Montepulciano d'Abruzzo DOC Casa Pepe
The 2020 Montepulciano d’Abruzzo Vecchie Vigne Casa Pepe is perfumed and wildly expressive, wafting up with a bouquet of dried violets, lavender, red plums and exotic spice. This possesses a gorgeous blend of vividly ripe red and blue fruits underscore...
2019 Pepe, Emidio - Trebbiano d'Abruzzo DOC
The most inviting mix of lemon oils, musky pear and peach, raw almond, ginger, iodine and yellow flowers wafts up from the 2019 Trebbiano d’Abruzzo Vecchie Vigne. It’s pliant, yet almost buoyant, seeming to hover across the palate with notes of apricot...
2021 Picariello, Ciro - Fiano di Avellino DOCG Ciro 906
The 2021 Fiano di Avellino Ciro 906 is distinctly savory, with a burst of crushed stone giving way to minty herbs and freshly sliced green apple. This sweeps across the palate with a reverberation of salty minerals and spice, further enhanced by a core...
2020 Picariello, Ciro - Fiano di Avellino DOCG Brut Contadino
The 2020 Brut Contadino is a total pleasure, opening with hints of spicy ginger and dried flowers that evolve into a blend of young peach and crushed rocks. This is decidedly savory and mineral in style, with a creamy bead of massaging bubbles that soo...
2022 Pieropan - Soave DOC Classico Calvarino
The first single-vineyard created here, in the late 18th century. More black soil than in the Soave Classico. This is very good, meshing the inherent ripeness of the vintage with a mineral-infused pungency. Green apples, quince and stone fruit. Yet the fe...
2019 Planeta - Carricante Eruzione 1614 (750ml)
The 2020 Sicilia Nerello Mascalese Eruzione 1614 opens to a medium dark ruby hue with lively primary fruit. Wild berry and cassis are backed by softly rendered oak tones of cinnamon and campfire ash. Even though it is technically outside of the DOC (by ju...
2022 Pliger,P. - Alto Adige Valle Isarco DOC Riesling Kuen Hof Kaiton
An attractive mix of ripe lemons, fresh peaches and honeysuckle with dried flowers and stony minerality. Impressive tension with medium to full body and nervy, linear acidity that cuts though the palate. Super steady and fresh. Long and crisp finish. Dri...