Italian Wine

Antonio Galloni calls the Tre Tine "quite attractive, as it is in most vintages", but 2021 is the year its famously fierce young tannins arrived al...

The 2021 Brunate is the frost vintage: an April morning at minus four cost Rinaldi 30 percent of the crop and forced the replanting of 70 percent o...

Beppe Rinaldi said a good Barolo "has corners, not curves" and is made for long ageing; this 1991 Brunate wears the stag-beetle label with its hand...

A Museum Piece. The Legend of 1971. This is not merely a wine; it is a time capsule from one of the greatest vintages in the history of Piedmont. P...

In 2012 the new Barolo rule let Rinaldi fold only 15 percent of Le Coste into Brunate, and this magnum carries the result under the stag-beetle lab...

Two vineyard names on one Barolo label became illegal from the 2010 vintage; this 2006 magnum comes from the last four years Beppe Rinaldi could ca...

Monica Larner's verdict on the 2017: a classic, traditional Barolo in spite of the hot year, drawn from four Verduno vineyards and released as 10,0...

Fabio Alessandria on his 2018s: the 2017 may last longer, but the 2018 will be ready to drink within ten years. Wine Enthusiast scored this bottlin...

The label states it plainly: 3,588 bottles from a parcel planted in 1937, held back five years in the cellar before Roagna lets it leave Castiglion...

When Lorenzo Accomasso phoned his Japanese importer about this 2011 Riserva, the message came with a warning: still interested in my wine? Next tim...