*Tasting data from producer *Dryness *: lower value = sweeter
Awards
Magazine
Item
Vintage
Points
Wine Spectator USA
Chianti Classico
2023
/1/100
Wine Enthusiast USA
Chianti Classico Riserva Viagnalparco
2021
94/100
Producer
Toscana
Located at the heart of Chianti Classico, at an altitude of 430m. above sea level, the vineyards of Casa Emma are surely among the greatest expressions that a land like Chianti Classico can offer.
The Bucalossi family bought the Estate from the Florentine noblewoman Emma Bizzarri.
They have maintained the name “Casa Emma” respecting the historical roots of this land.
Respect for nature, sustainability, attention to waste, has led us over the years to choose an organic viticulture management and use methods to preserve the beauty of our territory.
Outlier - Derek Rohlffs
Pinot Noir Long Valley AVA - Clear Lake USA
2023
Body
7.2/10
Astringency
6.8/10
Dryness *
6.6/10
Acidity
7/10
Aroma
7.4/10
*Tasting data from producer *Dryness *: lower value = sweeter
Awards
Magazine
Item
Vintage
Points
J. Suckling
Pinot Noir Long Valley AVA - Clear Lake USA
2023
94/100
J. Suckling
Pinot Noir Long Valley AVA - Clear Lake USA
2023
92/100
“A light-bodied, lithe and agile wine that’s built on vibrant acidity for a fresh, mouthwatering texture and elegant fruit, tea and earth flavors. Moderate tannins brace sour cherry, red cherry, black tea and mellow spice flavors.”
J. Suckling
Pinot Noir Long Valley AVA - Clear Lake USA
2023
92/100
Outlier Wine Company is another project by excellent Bravium winemaker, Derek Rohlffs. His 2023 pinot noir is made from a blend of sixty-eight percent Lake County fruit and thirty-two percent Mendocino County fruit in this vintage. The wine comes in at a cool 12.3 percent alcohol in this vintage and offers up a lovely, complex bouquet of cherries, pomegranate, raw cocoa, a touch of Mendocino dill tones, a lovely base of soil, peonies and a gently smoky topnote. On the palate the wine is bright, medium-full and intensely flavored, with a lovely core of red fruit, modest tannins and fine length and grip on the complex and very well balanced finish. This is a lovely middleweight that is approachable out of the blocks, but has the fine balance to also age gracefully. Good juice.” —John Gilman
Wine Enthusiast
Pinot Noir Long Valley AVA - Clear Lake USA
2022
94/100
This wine is rich, with aromas of dark cherry, plum, orange marmalade, dried sage and notes of potpourri on the nose. The flavors on the palate are black strawberry, raspberry and blood orange zest, layered with clove, Key lime-vanilla cream, mineral and a dry, supple finish. Pair with grilled salmon with miso glaze and bamboo shoots.
View from the Cellar
Pinot Noir Long Valley AVA - Clear Lake USA
2022
90/100
Outlier is a brand new project from talented winemaker Derek Rohlffs. His 2022 Pinot Noir hails solely from the organically-farmed Long Valley Ranch... The wine is raised for seven months in older French oak casks prior to bottling and comes in at a svelte 13.2 percent octane. The wine possesses a lovely aromatic constellation of black cherries, dark berries, woodsmoke, dark soil tones, incipient notes of cola, a dollop of Mendocino herb tones and a discreet framing of cedary oak. On the palate the wine is vibrant, full-bodied, focused and complex, with a lovely core of black fruit, good soil undertow, moderate tannins and a long, well-balanced and promising finish. This is approachable right out of the blocks, but I would be inclined to tuck it away in the cellar for three or four years and let its backend tannins soften up properly. A fine value. 2026-2045.
Producer
California - USA
Outlier is a different wine design from Bravium. Our vineyard-to-glass approach is environmentally conscious. We work in harmony with nature by incorporating regenerative dry farming methods, natural pest management, and minimizing interference during fermentation. We also use sustainable packaging to reflect the beautiful vineyards from which our wines come. From the wines at Outlier, you can feel Derek's new frontiers in winemaking.
*Tasting data from producer *Dryness *: lower value = sweeter
Awards
Magazine
Item
Vintage
Points
A. Galloni New York
Langhe Nebbiolo
2022
90/100
Producer
Piemonte
Carlo (born in 1880) – establishment and production of wine to sell unbottled.
An enterprising farmer from the Langa hills, the son of a family of poor sharecroppers. In 1921 he bought the Rombone farm in Treiso, then an outlying hamlet of Barbaresco, today a self-governing commune. There he immediately began to produce wine, which he used to sell, unbottled, to local restaurateurs.
Fiorenzo (born in 1923) – the sale of grapes.
The second last of Carlo’ s seven children, four brothers and three daughters, he inherited a small plot of land from his father in the early 1960s, when the property was split up among the four boys of the family. Since the resources left were scarce, Fiorenzo decided to discontinue his father’ s wine cellar business and to sell the grapes, which were much in demand among local merchants at the time.
Bruno (born in 1951) – departure, return to the vineyards, the first bottling.
Like most of the local youngsters, he was allured in the 1960s, the years of the economic boom, by the promise of a better life. He thus left Treiso for the city.
After completing his studies, he worked as a teacher in a school in Alba and subsequently at the hotel management school in Barolo, where he introduced food and wine to the syllabus for students aspiring to a career in the catering business.
But his bond with Treiso and his home turf was never broken. In the meantime, the old generation of farmers who had shaped the surrounding hills was slowly beginning to die out, and it seemed there was no one left to accept their inheritance.
The turnaround came when Bruno suggested his family stop selling grapes, which were fetching poor prices, and fit out a cellar to make and sell wine, using fewer bunches of grapes per vine to allow them to ripen better. It was a simple idea and it may seem obvious today. But in these parts at that time it was revolutionary.
Pruvuma (Let’ s give it a go) was the only word his father Fiorenzo had to say. It was 1982, the year Azienda Agricola Nada Fiorenzo produced its first bottle.
Danilo (born in 1986) the fourth generation: winegrowers are born and winegrowers they remain.
The early years of the new millennium crowned the new generation’ s complete discovery of farming and winegrowing: youngsters who were motivated, who could speak English, who were respectful of traditions, mindful of the environment. One such is Bruno’ s son Danilo who, after graduating, decided to follow the way of the vine.
His choice marked another turnaround in a story that began almost a century ago and is now projected towards the future. Danilo has begun to write the chapter of tomorrow today, treasuring the heritage his elders have handed down to him and helped in his task by the generosity of a soil that has been there for millions of years – the soil of the Langa Hills.
*Tasting data from producer *Dryness *: lower value = sweeter
Awards
Magazine
Item
Vintage
Points
Falstaff Germany
Rosso di Montalcino
2024
92/100
Falsraf
Rosso di Montalcino
2022
92/100
Vinous
Rosso di Montalcino
2022
90/100
Vinous
Rosso di Montalcino
2018
93/100
Wine Enthusiast
Rosso di Montalcino
2018
90/100
Gambero Rosso
Rosso di Montalcino
2017
2/3 Bicchieri Rossi
Producer
Toscana
In the 1950s Pierluigi Talenti purchased the property and the lands that he had fallen in love with and decided to move from Romagna to the gently rolling, sunny hills of Montalcino.
Over the years, he devoted his time to clonal research into the locally grown Sangiovese, taking his wines to the highest levels of quality.
Today, Riccardo Talenti continues that research, with the utmost respect for tradition, working with the very same passion and determination.
The estate has been developed around an old farm called “Pian di Conte”, not far from Sant’Angelo in Colle, on the southern slope of the municipality of Montalcino, which has been restructured and expanded over the years.
The property occupies an area of 40 hectares, among vineyards, olive groves, orchards and seed crops, surrounded by age-old holm-oak woods, characteristic of the Montalcino area.
*Tasting data from producer *Dryness *: lower value = sweeter
Producer
Toscana
Tenuta Fontenuova was founded in 2012 by Giuseppe Raspanti but the first vintage released was 2020.
Tenuta Fontenuova initially, with its 8 hectares, was dedicated to the cultivation of vineyards and the production of grapes. In recent years it has grown to the current 20 hectares, a growth focused on quality, modern viticulture, in full respect of the environment and tradition. All this has been possible thanks to the precious help of my sisters, Maria Pia and Elisa, and my wife Serena who play the role of fundamental consultants in facing current and future challenges.
Potential production is 47,500, while current one is 6,600 bottles.
*Tasting data from producer *Dryness *: lower value = sweeter
Producer
Toscana
Located at the heart of Chianti Classico, at an altitude of 430m. above sea level, the vineyards of Casa Emma are surely among the greatest expressions that a land like Chianti Classico can offer.
The Bucalossi family bought the Estate from the Florentine noblewoman Emma Bizzarri.
They have maintained the name “Casa Emma” respecting the historical roots of this land.
Respect for nature, sustainability, attention to waste, has led us over the years to choose an organic viticulture management and use methods to preserve the beauty of our territory.
*Tasting data from producer *Dryness *: lower value = sweeter
Producer
Sicilia
Spadafora is a noble Sicilian family, whose first certified traces date back to 1230. Over the centuries, the Casato had the predominance over five principalities, a duchy, two marquisates, a county and twenty-five baronies. Some of the family members have occupied leading positions in the Kingdom of Sicily and in some European States.
The founder of the farm is Don Pietro dei Principi di Spadafora, who inherits the estate from his uncle Michele De Stefani, a talented farmer and breeder of race horses. The estate suffered a lot of damage during the 1968 earthquake but don Pietro undertook both the reconstruction and the redevelopment of the company, reevaluating the native vineyards and bringing to Sicily allochthonous vineyards destined for the birth of quality wines.
The current owner is Francesco Spadafora, son of Don Pietro, married to his wife Claudia, flanked by his daughter Enrica.
The history of Spadafora bottled wine begins more than thirty years ago, in the summer of 1988, when Don Pietro Dei Principi di Spadafora decided to explore another world; so from the countryside of Mussomeli, family property in the Sicilian hinterland where wheat was cultivated, his son Francesco moved to Virzì to take care of the vineyards, transforming the grapes into wine.
Spadafora wines are made only with our grapes, located in the Virzì district, (Municipality of Monreale, map sheet 142), in the area adjacent to the cellar, so much so that it is defined as the garden that surrounds our houses.
チェリー, Ciliegia, Cherry - ブラックチェリー, Amarena, Black cherry - スパイス系, Speziato, Spicy - ベリー, Frutto di bosco, Berries -
Comment
Intense ruby red color tending towards garnet. The nose perceives notes of red berried fruits, intense, characteristic, ethereal aroma. On the palate it is balanced, dry and persistent with possible hints of wood.
Radar
Bars
Tenuta Fontenuova
Vino Nobile di Montepulciano
2020
Body
7.6/10
Astringency
7.4/10
Dryness *
7.2/10
Acidity
7.2/10
Aroma
7.7/10
*Tasting data from producer *Dryness *: lower value = sweeter
Producer
Toscana
Tenuta Fontenuova was founded in 2012 by Giuseppe Raspanti but the first vintage released was 2020.
Tenuta Fontenuova initially, with its 8 hectares, was dedicated to the cultivation of vineyards and the production of grapes. In recent years it has grown to the current 20 hectares, a growth focused on quality, modern viticulture, in full respect of the environment and tradition. All this has been possible thanks to the precious help of my sisters, Maria Pia and Elisa, and my wife Serena who play the role of fundamental consultants in facing current and future challenges.
Potential production is 47,500, while current one is 6,600 bottles.
*Tasting data from producer *Dryness *: lower value = sweeter
Producer
Toscana
The story between Etlivin and Gorelli continues. After the collaboration with Due Portine - Gorelli, and Le Potazzine, we start again with the Gorelli company.
Giuseppe Gorelli, after having founded Le Potazzine and given the company to his daughters, in 2017 decided to embark on a new path by founding a new company in Montalcino: La Gorelli. The first vintage of Brunello will start in 2023, while the first wine produced is a Rosso di Montalicino 2018, which both for price and quality can be exchanged for a Brunello. In addition to Rosso di Montalcino and Brunello, it also produces Brigo, a pure Sangiovese of extreme elegance. Total hectares 2.3. Bottles produced 20k.
Casa Emma
Chianti Classico Riserva Viagnalparco
2021
Body
7.9/10
Astringency
7.2/10
Dryness *
7.6/10
Acidity
7.6/10
Aroma
7.8/10
*Tasting data from producer *Dryness *: lower value = sweeter
Awards
Magazine
Item
Vintage
Points
Wine Enthusiast USA
Chianti Classico Riserva Viagnalparco
2021
94/100
Producer
Toscana
Located at the heart of Chianti Classico, at an altitude of 430m. above sea level, the vineyards of Casa Emma are surely among the greatest expressions that a land like Chianti Classico can offer.
The Bucalossi family bought the Estate from the Florentine noblewoman Emma Bizzarri.
They have maintained the name “Casa Emma” respecting the historical roots of this land.
Respect for nature, sustainability, attention to waste, has led us over the years to choose an organic viticulture management and use methods to preserve the beauty of our territory.
*Tasting data from producer *Dryness *: lower value = sweeter
Producer
Sicilia
Spadafora is a noble Sicilian family, whose first certified traces date back to 1230. Over the centuries, the Casato had the predominance over five principalities, a duchy, two marquisates, a county and twenty-five baronies. Some of the family members have occupied leading positions in the Kingdom of Sicily and in some European States.
The founder of the farm is Don Pietro dei Principi di Spadafora, who inherits the estate from his uncle Michele De Stefani, a talented farmer and breeder of race horses. The estate suffered a lot of damage during the 1968 earthquake but don Pietro undertook both the reconstruction and the redevelopment of the company, reevaluating the native vineyards and bringing to Sicily allochthonous vineyards destined for the birth of quality wines.
The current owner is Francesco Spadafora, son of Don Pietro, married to his wife Claudia, flanked by his daughter Enrica.
The history of Spadafora bottled wine begins more than thirty years ago, in the summer of 1988, when Don Pietro Dei Principi di Spadafora decided to explore another world; so from the countryside of Mussomeli, family property in the Sicilian hinterland where wheat was cultivated, his son Francesco moved to Virzì to take care of the vineyards, transforming the grapes into wine.
Spadafora wines are made only with our grapes, located in the Virzì district, (Municipality of Monreale, map sheet 142), in the area adjacent to the cellar, so much so that it is defined as the garden that surrounds our houses.