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This is beautifully perfumed and balanced with ever so polished tannins. Full-bodied, integrated and long. Love the...
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A forward, delicious Brunate with berries, spices and cedar with some chocolate. Medium body, round, silky tannins...
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The lavender, light tar and ripe-strawberry aromas are really beautiful. Medium-to full-bodied with chewy yet refined...
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Lovely aromas of tea and strawberries, as well as some cedar and spice that follow through to a medium to full body,...
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Lots of terracotta and plums with some coffee, too. Medium body, firm, silky tannins and a flavorful finish. Drink...
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Aromas of smoke, bark, terracotta and berries follow through to a full body, round, chewy tannins with a hint of dust...
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Red
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Ripe red cherries and blood oranges, as well as herbs and roses on the nose, leading to a juicy and flavorful palate...
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This shows citrus rind and ripe red cherries in abundance, leading to an open-knit feel on the palate, which reflects...
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Brovia is one of the brightest stars of Castiglione Falletto, the comune at the heart of the appellation that...
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A release of 3,824 numbered bottles (including various collectors' larger formats), the 2015 Barbaresco Riserva...
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Complex aromas of ripe fruit with plums and spices, as well as hints of hazelnuts. It’s full-bodied with firm...
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• 100% Nebbiolo. • Grown in calcareous clay/sandy soils. • 360 to 400 meters above sea level located within the...
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Incredible, reserved ripeness and depth already evident on the nose after one whiff, offering plum, cedar, rose hip,...
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Always one of the most elegant bottlings from Serralunga, thanks to the higher sand content in the vineyard's soil,...
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This wine is slightly more subdued and downplayed compared to the other protagonists of the Malvirà portfolio. The...
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Bright, combining cherry, earth, iron and green tea flavors with a solid tannic structure. Maintains energy and...
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Very intense blackberry and blueberry character with sliced-mushroom and tree-bark undertones. Porcini mushrooms...
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A wine of ruby red color with garnet hues, an ethereal, intense perfume and a dry, full, robust, gently tannic,...
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You can taste the softness and richness of the warm vintage in the 2015 Barolo Margheria. The wine offers dark fruit...
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Gelber Muskateller Marsala Nebbiolo Nero D'avola 2015 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.

Italy’s largest island, Sicily, has a wine producing history that can put most other European regions to shame. It was producing quality wines before the days of the Roman empire, and even the Ancient Greeks were not the first to cultivate vines on the island. For as long as anyone knows, the key grape varietal of Sicily has been Nero d’Avola, the beautiful, deep blue skinned grape which produces the region’s characterful, powerful red wines. While in the past, Nero d’Avola was mainly used as a blending grape, due to its deep color and intensely full body, it is today being increasingly celebrated as a single varietal wine grape, and is perfect for those who like their wines boisterous, loud and strong.



Nero d’Avola is grown pretty much everywhere on Sicily, as demand for wines made from this grape have never been higher. Despite its power and body, it is quite a versatile grape - it can be aged in oak barrels, which produces a dense and dark wine which puts its intense characteristics to good use, but it is also often drunk quite young, which allows its jammy, plummy character to come forward. It is also used to make rose wines in some appellations of Sicily, demonstrating a softer side to this otherwise heavy, deeply flavorful grape.