Alberico -- 2016 ‘Appia Antica 400’ Lazio Rosso -- Lazio, Italy only sold to their wine

only sold to their wine club members at fairly high prices

and the hand-harvested fruit is rigorously selected to give aromatics over physical weight and alcohol

Slovenia has an ancient

Zah is Chinese for “to burst” or “to explode” and his goal is to make wines that burst with flavor from the first sip

Bourgueil (burr-goy) is in the middle Loire on the North side of the river and makes some of the silkiest and elegant reds of the Loire

Alberico -- 2016 ‘Appia Antica 400’ Lazio Rosso -- Lazio, Italy only sold to their wineThis wine has a story like a combination of a soap opera and an episode of This American Life. Alberico Boncompagni Ludovisi, the Prince of Venosa, decided in the late 40s, at the urging of the most prominent Italian enologist of his day, Dr. Tancredi Biondi Santi, to plant Bordeaux varietals on his estate on the Appian Way just outside Rome (the address, Appia Antica 400, is the namesake of this wine) long before that had become fashionable in Italy.