Four-Pack · Italian Reds · Virtual Pop-Up Shop 2026
The Italian Job
Four Italian reds, four completely different regions, one country tying them all together with characteristic flair
Italy produces more indigenous grape varieties than any other country on earth. It also produces more unsolicited opinions about wine than any other country on earth. These things are related.
This pack is a tour of four very different corners of the Italian peninsula — a Chianti Classico from one of Tuscany’s finest estates, a Super Tuscan that breaks the rules with considerable panache, a Sardinian red from a grape almost nobody outside the island has heard of, and a Dolcetto d’Alba from Piedmont’s most respected winemaking family. No two bottles share an appellation, a grape, or an approach. What they share is the particular Italian conviction that wine should be made with passion, drunk with food, and argued about afterwards at length.
The Bottles
Paolo Scavino 2018 Dolcetto d’Alba
Alba · Piedmont · Dolcetto · 2018 · Paolo Scavino · Start here
Barolo royalty making the everyday wine. Which means the everyday wine is extraordinary.
Paolo Scavino is one of Barolo’s most celebrated producers — a name that commands serious attention and serious prices in the Langhe. Their Dolcetto d’Alba is what serious Piedmontese families drink on Tuesday evenings before opening the good stuff: fresh, vibrant, deeply purple, with wild cherry, licorice and a characteristic bitter almond finish that makes it one of Italy’s most food-friendly reds. Open this first while the kitchen is still busy. It is Piedmont in a glass and entirely delightful about it.
Pala 2017 Rosso Silenzio · Isola dei Nuraghi IGT
Sardinia · Cannonau & Monica · 2017 · Pala
The mystery bottle. Sardinia’s most characterful grape, in the hands of the island’s finest producer.
Sardinia is one of Italy’s great wine secrets — an island with an ancient winemaking culture, unique indigenous grapes and a fierce independence from the mainland that shows in every bottle. Pala is the island’s most respected producer, and Silenzio is their signature red: a blend of Cannonau (Sardinia’s name for Grenache, though the island claims prior ownership) and Monica, producing a wine of warmth, depth and distinctly Mediterranean character. Dark berry, dried herbs, a hint of the macchia and a finish that lingers on the salt air. The most unusual bottle in the pack and the most likely to generate the question “what is this exactly?”
Castello di Ama 2020 Chianti Classico AMA
Chianti Classico · Tuscany · Sangiovese · 2020 · Castello di Ama
Chianti Classico as it should be — elegant, site-specific and entirely serious.
Castello di Ama is one of Chianti Classico’s most admired estates — a property in Gaiole whose commitment to terroir expression and minimal intervention has produced some of the appellation’s finest wines over the past four decades. The AMA label is their estate Chianti: pure Sangiovese, galestro soils, honest winemaking. Dried cherry, tobacco, violet, iron and a structural elegance that reminds you why Sangiovese at its best is one of the world’s great red grapes. The most classically Italian bottle in the pack and the one most likely to make you book a trip to Tuscany.
Montepeloso 2019 Eneo Super Tuscan IGT
Maremma · Tuscany · Cabernet Sauvignon & Sangiovese · 2019 · Montepeloso · Finish here
The anarchist. A Super Tuscan from the wilder coast that plays by nobody’s rules but its own.
The IGT (Indicazione Geografica Tipica) designation was created largely because producers like Montepeloso refused to work within the traditional appellation rules — blending international varieties with Sangiovese, ignoring established norms, and producing wines that were simply too good and too individual to be constrained by regulation. Eneo is a powerful, complex blend from the Maremma coast — darker and more opulent than the Chianti, with blackberry, dark chocolate, cedar and a structure that demands decanting and rewards patience. The rule-breaker that closes the pack. Italy, at its most characteristically defiant and entirely magnificent.
What’s included
Paolo Scavino 2018 Dolcetto d’Alba · Piedmont
Pala 2017 Rosso Silenzio · Sardinia
Castello di Ama 2020 Chianti Classico AMA · Tuscany
Montepeloso 2019 Eneo Super Tuscan IGT · Maremma
Pick-up available Fri–Sun · Decant the Montepeloso 45 mins
Four regions. Four grapes. One country incapable of making anything dull.