PortoVino
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We're proud to represent PortoVino in Chicago. Their portfolio upholds the ethos we at Selection Massale have cultivated over the past 10 years. We're incredibly excited to share them with you. In their own words:
For over 20 years, we’ve been traveling Italy’s backroads to create a portfolio of terroir-driven wines that get us excited, from groovy daily-drinkers to fine and natural wines. We only work with growers, and import only wines that that continue to be soulful and delicious for us.
Italy is a peninsula of nooks and crannies (77% hills and mountains), with an incredible range of biodiversity in its grape varieties and soils. We want to explore them, and suss out the best, from classic growing areas (such as Chianti and Barolo), to less well-known areas (such as Alta Tuscia in Lazio and Alto Piemonte).
Our portfolio leans toward savoury and vinous wines with alcohol levels in check; we’re suckers for the tension limestone soils bring to wines, and the spice of volcanic soils. You’ll notice quite a few mountain and island wines in our portfolio, from the Alps and Apennines to Alto Piemonte. We don’t fly the naturalista flag, though we have quite a few ‘natural wine’ producers; we’re cool with a little brett or VA, but we don’t want sloppy wines, and we’d like to talk about possibly more than just sulphur levels (though we have them too!).
We’re in the midst of another Italian wine revolution, more poetic and serious than the ‘quality’ revolution of the 1980’s, one where producers are more confident and sensitive to echo Italy’s many soils and varieties. Throw in Italy’s regional culinary traditions, and these are good times, tempi belli, to be an Italian wine (and food) lover. We’re excited about getting these wines to your table – and ours.
Please visit their website here for specific producer information.
For over 20 years, we’ve been traveling Italy’s backroads to create a portfolio of terroir-driven wines that get us excited, from groovy daily-drinkers to fine and natural wines. We only work with growers, and import only wines that that continue to be soulful and delicious for us.
Italy is a peninsula of nooks and crannies (77% hills and mountains), with an incredible range of biodiversity in its grape varieties and soils. We want to explore them, and suss out the best, from classic growing areas (such as Chianti and Barolo), to less well-known areas (such as Alta Tuscia in Lazio and Alto Piemonte).
Our portfolio leans toward savoury and vinous wines with alcohol levels in check; we’re suckers for the tension limestone soils bring to wines, and the spice of volcanic soils. You’ll notice quite a few mountain and island wines in our portfolio, from the Alps and Apennines to Alto Piemonte. We don’t fly the naturalista flag, though we have quite a few ‘natural wine’ producers; we’re cool with a little brett or VA, but we don’t want sloppy wines, and we’d like to talk about possibly more than just sulphur levels (though we have them too!).
We’re in the midst of another Italian wine revolution, more poetic and serious than the ‘quality’ revolution of the 1980’s, one where producers are more confident and sensitive to echo Italy’s many soils and varieties. Throw in Italy’s regional culinary traditions, and these are good times, tempi belli, to be an Italian wine (and food) lover. We’re excited about getting these wines to your table – and ours.
Please visit their website here for specific producer information.