Contrada

Italian for single vineyard. Each Contrada will have its own name.

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Italian for single vineyard. Each Contrada will have its own name. Plural = Contrade. Etna’s Contrade have certainly raised knowledge of the term. Each year a tasting, the Contrade dell’Etna, is held to taste the current releases from Etna. The term is used throughout Italy.

Contrade names you might have heard of from Etna: Rampante, Guardiola, Feudo di Mezzo, Acuria, Sciaronuova, Calderara, and Rivaggi. Moving north to Veneto, Gini’s top Soave is from the Contrada “Salverenza”.

 

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Talenti Brunello di Montalcino 2020

Sangiovese from Montalcino, Tuscany

Talenti Brunello di Montalcino 2020

This would have to be the single best value Brunello I've tried in the last few years. I still vividly remember the first release of this wine I drank, the 2016. Straight out of the gate this is just beautiful. The harmony and complexity match a plush, fine mouthfeel of divine tannins. Generosity meets restraint in a beautiful place. Layered with red fruits, darker fruits, a little perfume over earthiness, baking spices, woody herbs, and much, much more.This would have to be the single best

Vintage 2020
Original price was: $152.Current price is: $128.
$123ea in any 3+
$118ea in any 6+
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Benoît Moreau Bourgogne Blanc 2022

Chardonnay from Chassagne-Montrachet, Côte du Beaune

Benoît Moreau Bourgogne Blanc 2022

Benoît’s Bourgogne Blanc comes exclusively from three parcels, all in Chassagne-Montrachet. The vines are over 20 years old and on the lower slopes, terroirs with deeper, more clay-rich soils. Even at this level, the wine is aged for 18 months before release and is super—racy, mineral and long.Offering up aromas of pear, white flowers, hazelnuts and buttery pastry, the 2022 Bourgogne Blanc is medium-bodied, pure and precise, with a succulent core of fruit and a saline finish. It wil

Vintage 2022
$151
$146ea in any 3+
$141ea in any 6+
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Recaredo Corpinnat 'Terrers' Brut Nature 2019

Xarel-lo from Penedès, Catalunya

Recaredo Corpinnat ‘Terrers’ Brut Nature 2019

Enticing set of aromas & perfume showing their indigenous grape varieties and the complexity of the blend they offer. Beautiful mousse and fine textured phenolics harmonised by time on lees with excellent mid-palate weight. Phenolics are superb with a complex array of flavours, savoury, saline, earthy, a little rose. Almond and marzipan with a balancing, cleansing silvery bitterness. Beautifully balanced for 0g/l dose showing wonderful generosity of expression yet elegance. Woody herbs at pl

Vintage 2019
$94
$90ea in any 3+
$86ea in any 6+
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Clemens Busch Riesling Marienburg Auslese 'Falkenlay' HALF 2023

Riesling from Mosel, Mosel-Saar-Ruwer

Clemens Busch Riesling Marienburg Auslese ‘Falkenlay’ HALF 2023

The Marienburg 2023 Auslese Falkenlay, as it is referred to on the central part of the label, is a full sweet wine with a magnificently layered and finely fresh and even herbal nose of jasmine, almond cream, greengage, spices, smoke, and marzipan. The wine shows all its richness on the palate, where intense, ripe, and elegant creamy and hugely juicy flavors of almond cream, coconut, apricot flower, mango, tangerine, honeyed yellow peach, and acacia. There is viscous and creamy presence, which ar

Vintage 2023 375ml
$126
$121ea in any 3+
$116ea in any 6+
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