From the Douro region of Portugal, this wine is made from the blend of Touriga Nacional, Touriga Franca, and Tinta Roriz grapes.  This is an area with a Mediterranean climate, hot in the summer months and cold in the winter.  Records date back to the 8th century that show the very harsh conditions are only [...read more]

Priorat covers a small area in northeastern Spain near the town of Tarragona. The area is of volcanic origin, which confers interesting characteristics to the soil and eventually, the wine. It’s characterized by its unique terroir of black slate and quartz soil with small particles of mica that reflects the sunlight and conserves heat. The [...read more]

The Meditius Primitivo de Manduria DOC is made from 100% Primitivo grapes, unlike other Primitivo wines that are blends. Primitivo was discovered to be genetically similar to California’s Zinfandel but because of different growing soils and climate, the fruit character is less jammy, the structure more akin to old world wines, with rustic notes of [...read more]

My brother-in-law Gino is Italian. Very Italian. He eats an average of 5lbs of pasta a week, he should have stock in Sambucca, and when it comes to wine, it’s always Chianti. So when he’s in town, as he was two weeks ago before flying off to South Korea (he’s in the army), I brought [...read more]