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White and Rosé The Lenotti Soave Classico and Casa Defra Pinot Grigio are superb, lively whites with a zippy charm. We shipped a range of top quality Italians direct from source. These include a sublimely elegant range of the greatest of all Soave Classicos from Stefano Inama - one of the greatest winemakers in Italy as well as a Greco di Tufo from Campania: a supremely exotic beast with a wonderful aroma of mango and honey. VENTO AND PIEMONTE
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Red FRUILI AND VENETO The Merlot del Piave offers soft and fruity drinking from the beautiful Villa Sandi estate, just north of Venice. We have added to our range of wines from Valpolicella and now have an excellent lower priced range from Lenotti – don’t confuse lower price with poor quality! – and the quite fabulous wines from Corte Sant’Alda. The Corte Sant’Alda Ripasso is just one of the best wines that I have tasted.
Cantine Lenotti
Corte Sant'Alda
PIEMONTE Also on our list are the excellent Pio Cesare wines: big rich wines including his extraordinary Fides Barbera d’Alba:one of the most powerful wines I have tasted this year. New also are the excellent value Barbera and Nebbiolo d’Alba from Marco Porello, whose vineyards lie just outside the Barolo region. The Villa Lanata Barbera d’Alba ‘Suculé’ is spectacular: big, rich and comple. Mascarello makes some of the most serious wines from the region. His Dolcetto is wonderfully elegant with latent power, and his Barolo ‘Bricco’ benchmark structured and not over-oaked Nebbiolo. Marco Porello
Villa Lanata
Mascarello
Pio Cesare
TUSCANY The entry point Chiantis from Baronici are well made with typical soft fruit. More serious are the Chianti Classico wines from Ormanni and Castello di Bossi: Chianti Classico Ormanni unoaked, with soft underpinning tannins, while Marco Bacci’s Chianti Classico‘Berado’ is superb, rich and immaculately made, reflecting the huge investment that Marco has made in the estate over the last few years. From master winemaker Roberto Cipresso’s La Fiorita comes benchmark Brunello that has balanced oak combined with voluptuous blackberry and damson fruit and will age for at least a decade. For a wine close in style and quality from Roberto, try his Laurus: Brunello in all but name!
CAMPANIA AND ABRUZZO Mercifully the assertion by Robert Parker that Antonio Monti is the finest maker of Montepulciano d' Abruzzo has not yet caused a huge price increase.; it is a massive, massive wine that opens out in the glass. Even more spectacular is the Binomio red from Stefano Inama. Quite simply one of the most exciting and blockbusting reds I have tried this millennium.
PUGLIA The deliciously fruity Rosso Salento and Primitivo A Mano are made by Californian Mark Shannon who has had enormous success with these wines.
SICILY Two excellent Sicilian wines both made from the Nero d'Avola. They are full of delicious blackberry fruit and the Baglio Curatolo is simply sensational.
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