Reorder Your Favorite Wines

Deeply robed and endowed with a haunting bouquet, the stylish 2008 Seghesio Barolo offers up a beautiful complex aroma reminiscent of plum, fennel, rose petal, and forest woodland. Better still, the wine’s heavenly scents carry through on the palate, providing plenty of mid palate appeal and nuanced flavors to savor a good long while. Elegant, but by no means eviscerated, the 2008 Seghesio Barolo possesses a healthy dose of firm ripe tannins to under gird its velvety center and assure a decade or more of pleasurable drinking.

In short, there is Soave and then there is La Frosca, an aromatic, luscious, downright irresistible wine which is clearly in a class all by itself. There’s a beautiful luscious quality in its beguiling bouquet and flavor, which include cherry blossom, dried honey, and freshly picked orchard fruits. Remaining forever elegant, harmonious and supremely balanced, it exits with the perfect amount of gentle acidity to frame the wine’s elegant fruit, along with a delightful citrus twist and a dash of almond in the long, lingering finish.

The 2006 Valenciso Rioja Reserva tantalizes the nose with savory scents of dark woodland berries, black cherry, mulberry, sandalwood, cinnamon, and more. On the palate, layers of complex, soft, silky fruit flavors lend polish and panache to the wine’s substantial underpinning, which will allow the 2006 Valenciso Reserva to age gracefully for a decade or more. Valenciso’s Reserva strikes a perfect balance between fruit and structure, which has earned this offering the accolades of all major wine critics, including Wine Advocate.

Losada Vinos de Finca has hit a homerun with the 2011 El Pájaro Rojo, a deeply-colored, polished, and sophisticated 100% Mencia wine from old vines. Redolent with beautiful and captivating scents of black fruits and exotic spices, it ingratiates the palate with a supremely suave texture and plenty of ripe, unctuous flavors. Expect deep rich fruit, subtle spice tones, and the most supple mouth feel imaginable in a young red wine. From start to finish, winemaker Amancio Fernández did everything right with this offering.

Bright and radiant like the Campanian sun, FiaGre offers a thoroughly captivating bouquet, which is as alluring as the scent of the sea and as fresh as a splash of sea spray. Add in hints of acacia flower, clove, and quince and it will be difficult to take your nose out of a glass of FiaGre. Yet, the best is yet to come. Caggiano’s 2011 FiaGre explodes in the mouth with the brisk flavors we found so mesmerizing in its bouquet. Clean, long flavors fill the mouth and tingle on the tongue, before exiting with a flourish.

Château Barreyre is one of the finest petits châteaux in Bordeaux and 2009 was one of the finest vintages in Bordeaux on record, so our tasting panel’s expectations were high. The 2009 Château Barreyre did not disappoint, offering a bold aroma of cassis and ripe red berries, deftly laced with enticing floral tones. Balanced and superbly structured, with plush ripe tannins that will allow for further maturation (if you have the patience), each sip brings a complex mix of nuanced flavors reminiscent of black cherry, cedar, and vanilla.

Vesevo’s 2011 Falanghina blends the full tropical flavors of Falanghina with the salty freshness of the nearby Tyrrhenian Sea. To whet the appetite, fresh scents of green apple, lime, and sea spray splashed with a dash of quince spring from the glass to tantalize the nose before magically re-emerging in the wine’s fresh, invigorating mid palate. Crisp and zesty from start to finish, Vesevo’s 2011 Falanghina makes a convincing case for the ancient Falanghina variety, one of Italy’s oldest and most revered grapes.

Bodegas Gormaz’s 2011 Ribera del Duero Tempranillo more than lives up to the estate’s growing reputation for delivering delicious, fruit forward wines. This old vine Tempranillo sports a dark, captivating robe of regal purple, but even more enthralling is the wine’s voluptuous bouquet, which is resplendent with the scents of ripe dark berries, spring woodlands, and wild herbs. Richly fruity and loaded with flavor, this youthful, opulent and ripe offering fills the mouth, making it a true pleasure to drink from start to finish.

Forget any insipid Verdicchio from fish shaped bottles you may have experienced in Italian restaurants or cheap seafood shacks because the 2011 Bisci Verdicchio di Matelica adds a whole new dimension to the Marches’ most popular wine, offering up an alluring nose of dried pineapple and fresh summer fruits. On the palate, subtle floral tones and gentle fruit flavors mingle with refreshing minerality. You won’t find oak on this wine or encounter any smoke and mirrors, just pure elegance and charm.