Alessandro Viola Blanc de Blancs 2023 objects

Alessandro Viola Blanc de Blancs 2023 objectsEasily one of Italy's most important traditional method sparkling wines, i. e. wines made exactly like Champagne, just from another place. Alessandro Viola is Sicily's most sensitive, studied grower, working in sandy oceanside soils in the northwest corner of the island. This Blanc de Blancs is soft, glowing, and salty, with clear tension and acidity throughout. It's a masterwork; there are precious few other sparkling wines in Europe like it.

Nero d'Avola

fermented in concrete for freshness

Lamoresca is the only winery for roughly 25 square miles

Magisterial

her art and her career

A wonderful expression of natural wine in Germany: not freaky or screechy

A lovely expression of dry Riesling from a region of Austria not nearly as famous for this variety

Sakurajima Komikan Gin is distilled with good amounts of these rare 'mikan

the 2022 vintage of Pinhook's flagship bourbon shows bright aromas of orange blossom

and dried pear rinds

It is both aesthetically modern

they're aged mostly in concrete vats or large wooden casks