Virtual Experiences

Item Description

Savor the tastes of Italy with your choice of a collection of four fine Italian red wines (12 bottles total), including tasting notes and a recorded video tasting and wine consultation. Your virtual wine tasting experience includes:

1) Your choice of either the Classic Tuscany or Taste of Italy collection of red wines:

• Classic Tuscany wines include three bottles each of Brunello Di Montalcino Verbena (2015), Poggio Rosso San Felice Gran Selezione (2016), Vino Nobile Di Montepulciano Montemercurio Messaggero (2016), and Foglio 38 Fornacelle (2015)
• Taste of Italy wines include three bottles each of Brunello Di Montalcino San Giacomo (2015), Barolo Tenuta L’illuminata (2015), Barbaresco Produttori Del Barbaresco (2017), and Amarone Della Valpolicella Corte Giara (2017)

2) Descriptive notes for each wine

3) A video presentation and guided tasting by a sommelier

4) Door-to-door shipping in styrofoam boxes, taxes, duties, and insurance (shipping supplement applies for Mississippi, South Dakota, and Vermont)

Open up two boxes of impeccable flavors, intense aromas, vibrant colors, and enchanting history when you receive your collection of four critically acclaimed Italian red wines. You'll find labels and vintages that are hard to find in the U.S., with high critic scores, and which have been skillfully curated by an exceptional sommelier team. Your selection includes Tuscan gems and prime wines from the Italian regions of Veneto and Piedmont. Included in your collection are descriptive notes for each wine and a video presentation and guided tasting by a knowledgeable sommelier.

Of the four kinds of Tuscan wine you'll receive in your classic Tuscany box, one will be Brunello di Montalcino Verbena, a robust and easy-to-drink wine. The skillful assembly of grapes from the different terroirs of Northern and Southern Montalcino give soul and life to this purebred Sangiovese wine. Also made from Sangiovese grapes, Vino Nobile Di Montepulciano Montemercurio Messaggero has an intense ruby red and aromas that consist of typical ripe berries and plum, followed by hints of vanilla and licorice, cloves, and black pepper. After aging in Slavonian oak vats for a minimum of 18 months and then moved to smaller vats for at least six months, this wine is bottled for an additional year of aging. Montepulciano has always been one of the most important and scenic wine areas in Tuscany, and its enduring blends are rooted in history.

In your Taste of Italy box, you'll find wines that originate in Italy's northwest and northeast regions. Made of Nebbiolo grapes in the Piedmont region of Italy is the winery Tenuta L'Illuminata, which boasts an excellent location for growing grapes, soil with magnificent characteristics, and ideal weather conditions that combine to create a superb Barolo that is both elegant and pleasant. Barolo Tenuta L'Illuminata boasts a ruby red color with light orange reflections. The nose is clean and intense, with notes of cherry, plum jam, vanilla, and hay, while the taste is full, mineral, harmonious, and warm, with soft tannins and a persistent finish reminiscent of licorice and tobacco. Sip the enveloping, intense, and soft flavors of Amarone Della Valpolicella Corte Giara, which comes from one of the most emblematic winemakers in Piedmont, the Allegrini family, dedicated to viticulture for over 400 years. They've created a wine that reflects tradition while also giving it a modern take, and this one has a deep, impenetrable ruby red color, a result of the accumulation of polyphenols caused by the initial withering of the grapes. The bouquet impresses with its powerful fruit scents, boasting an extraordinary prevalence of ripe cherries and marasca cherries, which merge with pleasant peppery spices and cloves.

Item Special Note

Valid within the contiguous United States. Wine cannot be shipped to P.O. boxes or to Utah. Shipments to Alaska, Hawaii, Mississippi, South Dakota, Vermont, and Puerto Rico are available at an additional cost. Winning bidder must be age 21 or over. Valid through December 31, 2022.