2022 Fattoria Colleallodole Milziade Antano Grechetto dei Colli Martani, Umbria, Italy Le Piane France • 100% Ugni Blanc

France • 100% Ugni Blanc grown entirely in the Borderies on the Tessendier family estate • Double distilled in Charentais copper pot stills • Aged for a minimum of 4 years in used French oak then finished for 6 months in 500-liter barrels made from the highly coveted Japanese oak variety

this wine is a veritable cornucopia of juicy joy

2016 Brigaldara Cavolo Amarone della Valpolicella DOCG

he feels it is more reflective of vinification than of terroir

2022 Fattoria Colleallodole Milziade Antano Grechetto dei Colli Martani, Umbria, Italy Le Piane France • 100% Ugni BlancDirect press to stainless steel tank spontaneous fermentation of must after settling. Antano is old school in winemaking terms, a garage winemaker, with a lack of intervention in the winery, including no barrique and no high tech equipment. He maintains his father's vineyard management techniques, now considered modern, which were once considered radical when Milziade began them years ago, with aggressive green harvesting and low tonnage per acre.