The Macon Villages "Les Sardines" by Domaine Robert Denogent is an elegant and mineral white wine made from Chardonnay grapes. Aging for 24 months in non-new barriques, for a wine that expresses aromas of white berry fruit, citrus and mineral notes. On the palate it has a good body, excellent freshness and salinity.
Region: France, Maconais.
Grapes: Chardonnay.
Alcohol content: 14%.
Aging: 24 months in barrique.
Contains sulfites
The Côtes du Rhône "Poignée de raisins" by Domaine Gramenon is a fragrant and fruity red wine made from grenache noir and cinsault grapes. It refines some months in a cement tank before being bottled without filtration. The Côtes du Rhône "Poignée de raisins" has a garnet red color. On the nose the bouquet expresses aromas of ripe red fruit and small berries. The sip is fragrant, with juicy and crunchy fruit, good tannins and closing with great freshness.
Region: France, Rhone
Grapes: Grenache Noir and Cinsault.
Alcohol content: 14%.
Aging: Some months in steel.
Contains sulfites
Extreme di Ilenia Spagnoli is a white wine macerated for 15 days on the skins, obtained from white grapes. Grapes that come from old vineyards of about half a century bred in a natural way. Refine a few months in concrete tanks. About 1000 bottles produced every year. A wine with a beautiful coppery color that gives us perfumes of passionflower, hawthorn and peach nut. The sip shows a rocky salinity, a good body and excellent persistence.
Grapes: White grapes.
Alcohol content: 13%.
Aging: Some months in cement tanks.
Contains sulfites
Le Campette by Raina is a balanced and vibrant red wine made from a blend of Merlot, Sagrantino, Sangiovese. It is presented in a ruby red glass. The nose offers aromas of red fruit, balsamic hints, aromatic herbs and boisey hints. In the mouth it is elegant, enveloping with fine tannins, very persistent and very drinkable.
Region: Umbria.
Grapes: 70% Sangiovese, 15% Merlot,15% Sagrantino.
Alcohol content: 14%.
Aging: 24 months in large oak barrels.
Contains sulfites
The Petit Ours Brun is a fresh and powerful red wine that combines the strength of the syrahs of the south to the freshness and aroma of those in the north. Nose that develops linearly on red-fleshed fruits, with slightly spicy notes. On the palate it is fresh, full-bodied, elegant, balanced and well-defined, of excellent quality.
Region: Francia, Rodano
Grape variety: Syrah,
Alcohol content: 13%.
Aging: 8 months in steel.
Contains sulfites
Greko is undoubtedly the most intriguing wine of Menat, born as a challenge to interpret Greco, a native vine with a phenolic maturation difficult to enhance in purity. Aging for 6 months on the skins in the classic Georgian Kvevri. Exotic nose with hints of grapes, tea, citrus fruits and spices. Mouth with an agile polyphenolic structure, almost ethereal, savory, to be swallowed and drunk more than to taste.
Region: Calabria.
Grapes: Greco
Alcohol content: 12,5%
Aging: Georgian kvevri for 9 lunar cycles on their own skins.
Contains sulfites
Ji jan is a gaglioppo-based rosé wine that was thought to be a ready-to-drink wine with an expressive potential that however will give the best of itself with aging in the bottle. A wine that is the quintessence of marl and wind, citrus and iodine. Iridescent and deep in the drink, rich and airy at the same time.
Region: Calabria.
Grapes: Gaglioppo.
Alcohol content: 13.5%
Aging: Georgian kvevri for 9 lunar cycles.
Contains sulfites
The Riesling Spätlese Trocken "Wehlener Sonnenuhr" has a straw yellow color. On the nose, hints of orange peel, apple and pear notes can be recognized. On the palate it is dry, with excellent freshness supported by a good mineral texture.
Region: German, Mosel.
Grapes: Rhine Riesling
Alcohol content: 12%.
Aging: Some months in steel.
Contains sulfites
"Sempre In Due" by Fra I Monti is a white wine aged in amphorae produced from white grapes. The grapes come from a small vineyard of only one hectare with a very low yield, which grows on clayey and loamy soils. The grapes are harvested at the end of September, and in the cellar after destemming are fermented spontaneously in open vats with maceration on the skins for 6 days. After the racking the fermentation in amphora ends without temperature control. The wine is then aged on the lees for 8 months in amphorae. Sempre In Due is a wine with fresh and fruity aromas, with a beautiful body, soft, fresh and sapid. Long enough finish.
Grapes: local white grapes.
Alcohol content: 12,5%
Aging: 8 months in an amphora.
Contains sulfites
Vin de France Rouge "Olla Rouge" by Domaine Matassa is a light, fresh, enjoyable, salty wine that expresses hints of black currant, blueberries and small berries. Hymn to joy and drinkability.
Region: France, Languedoc-Roussillon
Grapes: 70% Grenache Noir, 20% Grenache Gris, 10% Macabeu.
Alcohol content: 11.5%.
Aging: Some months in steel.
Contains sulfites
Nù Litr Bianco is a wine with low alcohol content and very fruity, long and elegant acidity, easy to drink. Precise finish where citrus flavors like lemon and orange are clearly distinguished. Liter bottle.
Region: Puglia.
Grapes: White Bombino.
Alcohol content: 11%.
Aging: Fiberglass tanks.
Contains sulfites
Bianco 'Versante Nord' is an Etna white obtained from a blend of Minella, Catarratto, Carricante, Coda di Volpe, Grecanico and Inzolia. Refine for 8 months in large exhausted barrels. Interesting and multiple aromas on the nose ranging from fruity and citrus notes to hay and chamomile, followed by hints of flint. At the sip it stands out for its citrine freshness, its enveloping body and its long persistence.
Region: Sicily.
Grapes: Minella, Catarratto, Carricante, Coda di Volpe, Grecanico and Inzolia.
Alcohol content: 12%.
Aging: 8 months in large exhausted barrels.
Contains sulfites
"Raiz" is a Portuguese white fresco and mineral wine that comes from pure Loureiro grapes. It has a straw yellow color. On the nose you can recognize salty notes, hints of white-fleshed fruit, such as green apple. On the palate it is fresco, juicy, with a lively salinity.
Region: Portugal, Barraida.
Grapes: Loureiro.
Alcohol content: 12%.
Aging: Some motnhs in steel.
Contains sulfites
Cafone is the most docile and drinkable version of Montepulciano desired by Jacopo: shorter maceration, only steel, mature harvest but not beyond. However, it is not a glu glu wine, even here there is substance and flab.
Regione: Abruzzo.
Vitigno: Montepulciano d'abruzzo.
Gradazione alcolica: 13.5%.
Affinamento: Some months in steel.
Contains sulfites
Wine produced only in large vintages with local red grapes. The vineyards are located between 400 and 500 meters above sea level with east / south-east exposure, on volcanic soils that bring a lot of minerality to the wines. Spontaneous fermentation with maceration on the skins for a month. Ages one year in cask and two years in bottle. A cult wine that tastes of red berry fruit, spices, fresh and mineral, to be kept in the cellar and drunk among some to let it express its full potential.
Grapes: Local red grapes.
Alcohol content: 13%.
Aging: 24 months in barrel.
Contiens sulfites