Barolo to Valpolicella, Brunello to Zibibbo: the Italian Wine Festival - Milwaukee Only

Italy is synonymous with wine. As one of the largest producers of wine in the world and with more vines in the ground than all but two other countries, Italy is a vino powerhouse where every part of the country produces some form of wine. 

Italy’s early Greek settlers christened the country Oenotria or Land of the Vine. By its fall in the fifth century, the Western Roman Empire had established every modern European wine-growing region except Bordeaux. And the first-century Roman naturalist and philosopher Pliny the Elder introduced ideas of site selection and vine husbandry that are still relevant to today’s growers.

Today, Italian wines marry modern grape-growing and winemaking practices with three millennia of oenological heritage. Italy makes nearly five billion liters of wine annually, the most of any country in the world. Not just the most, but the most diverse. No country can challenge Italy’s amazing variety of delicious wines, its wealth of indigenous local grapes, and its seemingly endless supply of intriguing wine styles.

How to taste through this amazing country? With the Italian Wine Festival, of course!  We will ample an enormous variety of Italy’s wines, from the greats of Nebbiolo from Barolo and Brunello to lesser-known varietals such as Prié Blanc from Valle d’Aosta, Frappato from Sicily, and Teroldego and Nosiola from the Dolomites.

So join us for a delicious day of discovery—one 3,000 years in the making!

One ticket fee credited towards a 12 bottle purchase, no cash value. 

Wines to be tasted:

2021 Benanti Brut Noblesse $71.99
2022 Ronc Platat GAF Blanc $45.99
2023 Vini Belluzzo Perla Nera Bianca $42.99
2023 Elena Walch Pinot Bianco $35.99
2022 Bruno Giacosa Arneis $55.99
2021 Benanti Contrada Cavaliere Bianco $86.99
2021 Donnafugata Floramundi $42.99
2020 Isole E Olena Cepparello $183.99
2019 Arnaldo Caprai Sagrantino Collepiano $60.99
2021 Sassicaia $389.99

2019 Contratto "Millesimato" Alto Langhe Brut $40.99
2022 La Spinetta Timorasso $35.99
2022 Cottanera Etna Bianco $33.99
2019 Ciacci Piccolomini d'Aragona Brunello di Montalcino $79.99
2008 La Spinetta Sassontino $108.99
2021 Zeni Amarone della Valpolicella Classico $56.99
2020 Chiara Boschis (E. Pira) Barolo Via Nuouva $140.99
2015 Coocito Barbaresco Riserva $93.99

Ferghettina Franciacorta Brut $55.99
2022 Vietti "Derthona" Timorasso $45.99
2022 Corte Giacobbe Soave "Runcata" $41.99
2022 COS Winery "Rami" Bianco $35.99
2021 Pietradolce Etna Rosso $35.99
2019 Tenuta Caparzo Brunello di Montalcino $69.99
2021 Ornellaia "Le Serre Nuove" dell'Ornellaia $99.99
2019 G.D. Vajra Barolo "Ravera" $119.99

2022 Livio Felluga Friulano $67.99
2021 Pieropan Soave Classico Clvarino $52.99
2020 Borgogno Derthona $79.99
2022 Jermann Vintage Tunina $99.99
2016 Colombaio di Cencio Chianti Classico Gran Selezione $69.99
2010 Castiglion del Bosco Brunello di Montalcino $109.99
2017 Cascina Valle Asinari Barbera Nizza $59.99
Produttori di Barbaresco $69.99
2023 Allegrini Amarone $118.99

2023 Abbazia di Novacella Praepositus Kerner $48.99
2020 Colli di Lapio Fiano di Avelino "Clelia" $80.99
2014 Gini Salvarenza Soave $59.99
2022 ZAMO Sauvignon Friuli Colli Orientali $33.99
2020 Tre Monti Sangiovese di Romagna Riserva "Thea" $38.99
2020 Terre Nere Etna Rosso Calderara Sottana "Bellacolonna" $49.99
2020 M. Marengo Barolo Brunate $89.99

2020 Manni Nossing Sylvaner, Sudtirol Eisacktaler, Alto Adige $36.99
2020 Kante Chardonnay, Friuli $51.99
2021 Ermes Pavese Blanc de Morgex et de La Salle, Valle d’Aoste $47.99
2022 Vigneti Massa “Derthona” Timorasso, Piedmont $47.99
2017 Conterno-Nervi Gattinara, Piedmont $41.99
2022 Foradori Teroldego “Morei”, Trentino $65.99
2017 Peter DiPoli “Iugum” Merlot/Cabernet Sauvignon, Alto Adige $79.99
2019 Monte dall’Ora Valpolicella Ripasso “Sausto”, Veneto $49.99

2023 Michele Satta Casta di Giulia Bolgheri Bianco $40.99
2021 Tenuta Mazzolino Blanc Chardonnay $45.99
2022 Vie di Romans Flor di Uis $58.99
2022 Vie di Romans Friulano Dolee $61.99
2021 Marenco Albarossa $41.99
2018 Fattoria del Cerro Vino Nobile di Montepulciano Riserva $41.99
2019 Nuraghe Crabioni Cannonnau Antigua Riserva $45.99
2019 Speri Amarone della Valpolicella Classico "Sant Urban" $100.99

All prices listed shown are regular retail. Significant discounts offered on all wines at the tasting.

Due to the their highly allocated nature, some wines may change without notice.