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The Flight $16 for 5 pours with 3 additional pours for purchase

Ricossa Gavi 2024 DOCG $19 - 100% Cortese di Gave from the Piedmont region. Pale straw yellow color, with a fruity bouquet, with hints of white flowers. In the mouth it is pleasant, fresh, harmonious and well balanced.

Marchesi del Salento Primitivo, Puglia 2023 $14 - 100% Primitivo. Opens with a burst of sweet spices, minty herbs and wild blueberries. It is juicy and soft in texture with ripe wild berries. Purple flowers and a hint of dark chocolate linger on the respectfully balanced finish.

Ricossa Barbera d’Asti 2021, Piedmont $16 - Deep color, it has notes of red fruits such as blackberries, cherries and currants, homemade grandmother’s jams, and a touch of vanilla. The palate is a wine with an enveloping body and delicate tannins, fresh and with a balanced finish.

I Fauri Montepulciano d’Abruzzo 2022 $21 - 100% Montepulciano, farmed organically from vineyards in the villages of Ari and Villamagna. The fruit is completely destemmed before 6-7 days of skin maceration in stainless steel. Aromas of fresh-pressed cherries and blackberries meld with accents of crushed herbs and sweet tobacco in this unoaked Montepulciano. Juicy mixed berries carry the fresh palate, with supple tannins and lifted acidity keeping everything in check. Cherry skins lend grip to the feel and linger on the close.

Bindi Sergardi Achille Toscano Rosso 2022 $21 - Bindi Sergardi's origins can be dated back to 1349. Gentlemen, Nobles full of valor, great agriculturists, captains, and bishops, for 23 generations the family has been dedicated to wine making in Siena. Intense ruby red colour. An intense and fruity bouquet. More evident are the accents of mature red fruit, cherries and blackberries. Achille is very round, sweet and soft in the mouth.

Bonus Wines

Azelia Dolcetto d’Alba Bricco dell’Oriolo DOC 2022 $26 - A Dolcetto produced from the Bricco dell’Oriolo single-vineyard, with a full south exposure and from one of the region’s best areas for this variety: Montelupo Albese. Intense color, red fruit, blackberry, blueberry, rose, sweet spices, deep fruity and floral flavors which persist for long. Aromatic and mineral.

Azelia Nebbiolo Langhe DOC 2022 $36 The true Nebbiolo, in purity. From it the brilliant and lively color. Violet and floral aromas, juicy, with refreshing touches of cherry, strawberry and currant.

Ricossa Barolo DOCG 2020 $55 - It is the great Italian wine par excellence, made from pure Nebbiolo grapes. It is born in the heart of the Langhe, a few kilometers south of the city of Alba, in the territory of 11 municipalities that chase each other in an evocative itinerary of hills, chiseled by the expert hand of man and guarded by imposing medieval castles, including the very one of Barolo, which gave its name to the wine that is now famous all over the world.Full and intense garnet color. Fruity and spicy aroma reminiscent of small red fruits, cherries in spirit and jam, but also gives suggestions of rose and dried violets, cinnamon and pepper, nutmeg, vanilla and sometimes licorice, cocoa, tobacco and leather. 

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