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  • Marcarini

  • Marco Porello

  • Marino Colleoni

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    The Accidental Vineyard

    The Colleonis are from Bergamo, which apart from an old castle and a Ryanair connection doesn`t have much to recommend it. so they bought a lovely property in Tuscany. One day they spotted a bunch of grapes poking through the leaves of a tree and eventually hacked their way through to an ancient and long unkempt vineyard. This has become a labour of love and a provider of some of the best and most exciting Brunello and Rosso. In the cellar only natural yeasts are used and maceration is over a month in duration. (CW 09/07/14)

  • Mauro Franchino

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    The Alto Piemonte village of Gattinara lies tucked into the hills between Turin and Milan. In the modern era, Barolo and Barbaresco (90 km south) hog the Nebbiolo limelight, but in the 19th century some of Italy’s most sought-after Nebbiolo came from Gattinara. Locally, Nebbiolo is called Spanna, and there is a clear stylistic difference with Barolo and Barbaresco. Slightly lighter-bodied Gattinara relies less on sheer power, and more on perfume and elegance. Yet with tangy acidity and sometimes formidable tannins, the wines of Gattinara have a long capacity to age.

  • Nunzio Ghiraldi

  • Ottin

  • Piero Antinori

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  • Pietradolce

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    Pietradolce is an 11 hectare estate located on the northern slopes of Etna, founded in 2005. Their vineyards are between 600 and 900 feet above sea level andare made up of stoney, light, sandy loam. The native varieties are grown here (Nerello Mascalese, Nerello Cappuccio and Carricante), to produce terroir expressive wines that are intensely bright and fresh with beautiful fruit and serious drinkability. (DS 08/04/22)

  • Pietro Caciorgna

  • Podere Grattamacco

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    The affinity between Tuscan soils and the classically Bordelais grape varieties is now well-established, and in gravelly coastal Bolgheri, where Sangiovese never grew very well anyway, Bordeaux varieties are king; this is a terroir for Cabernet and Merlot, the Super-Tuscans. Nowadays there are 50 wineries in Bolgheri, but you don`t have to go that far back to reach a time when there were only two. Cabernet Sauvignon came out of the shadows with the first commercially released vintage of Sassicaia in 1969; Grattamacco joined it in 1977 as the second-ever Super-Tuscan.

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