Piedmont

Owners and winemakers Giuseppe and Mauro Pavia are self-proclaimed Barbera specialists: “We want everyone to know the greatness of Barbera d'Asti”. In the 1980s they purchased vineyards in the beautiful rolling... Read More

Looking for a Champagne-quality sparkling wine at a reasonable price? The Cieck San Giorgio Spumante from the Alto Piemonte, at the base of the Italian Alps, is a fantastic option to enliven an evening or celebration. This was... Read More

One of the most beautifully named wine grapes Erbaluce, dubbed by the Romansa Alba Lux or “dawn light” owing to the limpid luminescence of its ripening berries, is an obscure grape variety hardly ever seen outside... Read More

The Perrone family produces Muscat Hills Castigline Tinella since the end of 1800; four generations of winemakers are behind this dynamic company that since 1989 is led by Stefano Perrone, with the precise objective of the qualitative... Read More

You might be hard pressed to find a better liter-sized bottle of red wine at this price and quality. Ercole, whose English translation is Hercules, is only made possible by a generations-old cooperative of local growers in the... Read More

You do not always have to choose between quality and quantity: this liter sized bottle has both. Just what you need when guests are expected. Ercole, whose English translation is Hercules, is the work of a generations-old cooperative... Read More

This “entry-level” Nebbiolo from one of the great Barolo houses in the Piedmont is at the quality level of some other estates’ Barolos. A hefty claim I know, but try a glass and see for yourself. Five generations... Read More

Emblematic of the Piedmont peasant culture, the early ripening Dolcetto has always been produced by the people of the countryside in their farmhouses. A humble wine that requires few resources, but which can satisfy all palates.... Read More

Luigi Voghera and his wife, Pinuccia, put down roots in the small town of Tetti in 1974. Here in the hills of Neive, at the epicenter of the Barbaresco appellation, their farm has grown over the ensuing half century to a respectable... Read More

Livio Voghera’s 22 hectares of vineyard holdings in the Langhe are a scattered affair, a few plots here, another there. The emphasis is site specificity; he and his family own parcels in a pair of less commonly found Cru... Read More