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The 2016 Barolo Ravera is bursting with all of the tension that is the most singular characteristic of this site....
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Located in Novello, from three hectares of the Ravera MGA with southwest exposure, the 2017 Barolo Ravera was aged...
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Located in Novello, from three hectares of the Ravera MGA with southwest exposure, the 2017 Barolo Ravera was aged...
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The 2018 Barolo Ravera is a wine of real depth and vertical structure. As always, the Ravera is a taut, nervy Barolo...
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The 2018 Barolo Ravera is a wine of real depth and vertical structure. As always, the Ravera is a taut, nervy Barolo...
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The 2019 Barolo Ravera is the most intensely mineral and saline of the Barolos. Crushed rocks, white pepper, flowers,...
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Intense garnet-red colour. The nose, while stark to begin with, reveals complex floral notes that emerge after a few...
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The first vintage for the 2015 Barolo Riserva offers richness and depth of profile, with spiced red plum, sweet...
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Offers Christmas pudding, currant and other dried fruit. Full-bodied, with amazing concentration of ripe fruit and...
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A wonderfully balanced and refined Barolo with firm tannins and delicious berry, plum and light chocolate character....
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The venerated Rocche di Castiglione MGA is noted for its extremely steep slope, southeastern exposure and pure white...
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A hauntingly complex and finely detailed nose that touches so many different characters. Roses, dried wood, cedar,...
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A hauntingly complex and finely detailed nose that touches so many different characters. Roses, dried wood, cedar,...
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The Vietti 2016 Barolo Rocche di Castiglione is a complete wine, offering exact measures of purity, intensity,...
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The Vietti 2016 Barolo Rocche di Castiglione is a complete wine, offering exact measures of purity, intensity,...
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There’s clarity and energy to this, offering sweet strawberries and watermelon with fresh-rose and sandalwood...
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This is one of my sweetheart wines from Castiglione Falletto. The Vietti 2018 Barolo Rocche di Castiglione is...
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Ruby-red colour. The nose is complex and elegant. Emerging notes include mandarin, ripe red fruit and rose petal,...
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Luca Currado is on a roll. This is the third vintage (in as many years) that blows me off my feet. The 2010 Barolo...
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Kerner Marsala Nebbiolo Negroamaro Xarel-lo 750ml Wine

Marsala is a well known fortified wine from Italy’s largest island, Sicily. A largely misunderstood and undervalued fortified wine, it is most commonly associated with its sweet variety - usually used as a cooking wine - although the finest dry Masalas are able to stand up to more revered, similar wines such as Sherry and Madeira. Marsala has been made in Sicily since the mid 18th century, and it grew wildly popular around Europe as sailors introduced it to port towns across the continent. Marsala wine has a beautiful set of flavors, most typically including apricot, tamarind, vanilla and tobacco, making it a delightfully intense treat when served as a sipping wine.



Marsala wine comes in several different varieties, and most of them are a world away from the sweet wines used in sauces and chicken dishes. Amber, golden and ruby versions of Masala are produced, from a range of different native grape varietals, and many of the finest are aged for over ten years to achieve a fascinating set of complex flavors and a remarkably smooth finish. It is usually made from the Grillo, Inzolia, Damaschino and Catarratto white grapes, although the ruby Masala wines uses typical Sicilian red varietals such as Nero d’Avola and Calabrese, among others.

The Nebbiolo grape varietal is widely understood to be the fruit responsible for Italy's finest aged wines. However, its popularity and reliability as a grape which gives out outstanding flavors and aromas has led it to be planted in many countries around the world, with much success. These purple grapes are distinguishable by the fact that they take on a milky dust as they begin to reach maturity, leading many to claim that this is the reason for their unusual name, which means 'fog' in Italian. Nebbiolo grapes produce wines which have a wide range of beautiful and fascinating flavors, the most common of which are rich, dark and complex, such as violet, truffle, tobacco and prunes. They are generally aged for many years to balance out their characteristics, as their natural tannin levels tend to be very high.

One of the key grapes of the ever-growing Puglia wine industry is the Negroamaro, a native grape of this southern Italian region, famed for its deep, bloody red color and excellent set of flavors Indeed, many of the finest and most highly esteemed full bodied red wines of Puglia are made using the Negroamaro varietal grape, and it is grown most notably in the Salento area of the region, where it makes several types of red wine enjoyed locally and sold overseas. The name 'Negroamaro' means 'black-bitter', giving some clue as to one of the key features of the grape. Wines made with Negroamaro do indeed hold quite a lot of earthy bitterness, but generally are celebrated for their 'rustic' taste and extremely aromatic qualities.