Tuscan Red in Its Prime

Il Conventino (Vino Nobile di Montepulciano, 2010) $28/bottle SOLD OUT Of the three main production zones in Tuscany for Sangiovese-based wines, it’s Vino Nobile di Montepulciano that seems most often overlooked. Thanks to a certain fictional forensic psychiatrist and cannibalistic…

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Posted on 2016.06.01 in Saturday Sips Wines, Italy, Tuscany  |  Read more...

 

Stunning Amarone from a New Cult Favorite Producer

Lorenzo Begali “Monte Ca’ Bianca” (Amarone della Valpolicella, 2010) $89/bottle Although Lorenzo Begali looks like he might have just stepped out of a Spaghetti Western his stardom is in winemaking, not cinema. Since 1986, he and his wife…

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Posted on 2016.03.23 in Saturday Sips Wines, Italy, Veneto  |  Read more...

 

Tuscan Wine Tasting with I Collazzi Winemaker

Thursday, February 25th, 5:30-7, Elie Wine Co. will be pouring the wines of I Collazzi with Cellarmaster Alberto Torelli. We will be tasting the Chianti Classico “I Bastioni”, Merlot-based “Libertà”, a Bordeaux-blend Super-Tuscan “Collazzi”, and the white wine “Otto…

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Posted on 2016.02.12 in News & Events, Italy, Tuscany  |  Read more...

 

Legendary Italian Pinot Noir

Frecciarossa “Giorgio Odero” Pinot Nero (Oltrepò Pavese, 2010) ~$35/bottle If you’ve spent any time at Elie Wine Company you’ve browsed our vast selection of red Burgundy. You know that we know good Pinot Noir. No other Italian wine zone produces…

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Posted on 2015.11.11 in Saturday Sips Wines, Italy, Lombardy  |  Read more...

 

Singular Mountain Wines of Northwestern Italy

Château Fueillet “Fumin” (Valle d’Aosta, 2014) red ~$35/bottle Château Fueillet “Petite Arvine” (Valle d’Aosta, 2014) white ~$31/bottle Maurizio Fiorano became a vineyard owner by chance. When he married and moved with his wife to her hometown of Saint-Pierre in the…

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Posted on 2015.11.05 in Italy, Valle d'Aosta  |  Read more...

 

Rare and Thrilling Wines from Piedmont Italy

Vigne Marina Coppi “Marine” (Colli Tortonesi Favorita, 2011) white ~$35/bottle Vigne Marina Coppi “Sant’ Andrea” (Colli Tortonesi Barbera, 2012) red ~$25/bottle SOLD OUT With its many overlapping appellations spread across the largest region of the Italian mainland, it takes…

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Posted on 2015.10.21 in Saturday Sips Wines, Piedmont, Italy  |  Read more...

 

Embrace Autumn with a Brilliant Red from Italy’s Piedmont

Hilberg-Pasquero (Barbera d’Alba, 2013) ~$24/bottle There will still be a few days left this year to sneak some rosé on the patio but autumn is approaching fast. Just because you may need an evening sweater doesn’t mean it’s time to…

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Posted on 2015.09.16 in Saturday Sips Wines, Piedmont, Italy  |  Read more...

 

New Arrivals Italian-Style September 2015

We are always finding new and interesting wine. Quite often they are tiny production from family farms and we might never get a chance to let you know before they are all gone. Here are just a few of the…

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Posted on 2015.09.15 in Piedmont, Emilia-Romagna, Italy, Veneto  |  Read more...

 

An Italian White of Fruit & Sunshine

Pievalta (Verdicchio dei Castelli di Jesi DOC Classico Superiore, 2014) ~$17/bottle Elie Wine Company specializes in wines with specific characteristics unique to the place that they come from — what the French call terroir. Wines with that extra something special that’s…

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Posted on 2015.08.20 in Saturday Sips Wines, Marche, Italy  |  Read more...

 

Vigne Marina Coppi “Fausto”

Vigne Marina Coppi “Fausto” (Colli Tortonesi 2011, Piedmont) ~$50/bottle — Only 6,600 bottles produced. – SOLD OUT Colli Tortonesi is a stone’s throw from the well-known region of Gavi in the easternmost part of Piedmont that links up with…

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Posted on 2015.06.10 in Piedmont, Italy  |  Read more...

 

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