Fratelli Alessandria’s 2012 Barolo Is “Pure Class”
The 2012 Barolo from Fratelli Alessandria in Verduno is truly a stunning wine; or a wine of “pure class,” as Vinous critic Antonio Galloni puts it. We couldn’t agree more!
Great Notes from Wine Enthusiast for Vadiaperti
Following a huge year as a Wine & Spirits’ Top 100 Winery, Vadiaperti keeps the hits coming. Wine Enthusiast reviews winemaker Raffaele Troisi’s stunning 2015 Fiano wines.
A Trio Of Talent: Wine & Spirits Top 100
North Berkeley is honored and proud to have THREE partners named to the Wine & Spirits Top 100 Wineries list for 2016 — what a showing! This list is the who’s who of worldwide wineries that consistently perform and have wowed Wine & Spirits tasters over the past year. Drum roll, please! Here’s our winners.
Wine & Spirits Calls Vadiaperti Fiano “the Chenin of Italy”
Our newest partner in Campania, Azienda Agricola Vadiaperti is on a roll. Just this month his peerless Fiano di Avellino ‘Aipierti’ was named a Critic’s Pick at Wine & Spirits.
Face to Face with Nerello Beauty and the Etna Beast
Steel clearly runs in the blood of the Murgo clan. But for good reason, as they’ve cultivated vines and olives under the fiery gaze of Etna for more than a century. Many times the volcano has destroyed their vineyards and property, and regularly covers the family home in layers of ash. Yet as the brothers told us, this is the price one pays for the privilege of growing vines on Etna’s slopes.
Journey to the Center of Campania, or Preserving Time in a Bottle
In May, our team visited Azienda Agricola Mustilli, an organic family estate in the medieval village of Sant’Agata dei Goti, inland from Naples in Campania. The family invited us to walk 50 feet underground into their 1,000-year-old, hand-carved wine cellar. This is what we saw.