Event

Every Thursday from 4:00 until 8:00 pm we open a special bottle of wine and offer to you at a highly discounted price.
The wines are typically 90 points or better and are discounted 20-40%. Sometimes even more! when we can get special pricing from our vendors , we pass the savings along to you!!
Come in on Thursday and sample. If you can't make it, call us and we can put some aside for you!! 
(All purchases must be accompanied by a credit card.)

RA

MITELLO

Molise Rosso

? Di Majo Norante

2011

85% Montepulciano and 15% Aglianico

We can't believe we found this little gem hidden away in the back of a warehouse...

and on sale too!

Number 74 on The  Wine Spectator Top 100 

90 Points!

“The up-front mulberry and plum fruit is ripe and fleshy in this balanced red, with polished tannins. Notes of licorice string, graphite, tarry smoke and grilled mushroom push through midpalate and on the finish. Drink now through 2021. 8,500 cases made".

Our Thoughts...............

This cru is made mainly from a selection of the best Montepulciano and Aglianico grapes grown in the Ramitello vineyard of Campomarino. Full, mellow and velvety wine; with a perfect blend of flavor’s such as plum, undergrowth and hints of leather and licorice, deep ruby red in color with violet reflections. Ideal with rich dishes, especially game, ripe cheeses, roasted chicken, pasta with red sauce or grilled meats.

Regularly $17.99

Special Sale Price Tonight

Only $15.00 a bottle
 $76.50 for six!



Click here or Call us to order!      703-668-WINE(9463) 

From the Winery.......

THE MOLISE CONTRYSIDE

In the Molise region, wine has traditions dating back to the Sannites and Romans, the first to introduce grape growing. Production methods are those passed down through the generations in the southern Apennines, constantly tied to the farming world. The Masseria Di Majo Norante is located north of the Gargano promontory in the district of Ramitello, in the countryside of Campomarino, where the loose, partially sandy soil and summer breezes combine to create a particularly favourable environment. Alessio Di Majo, a determined and somewhat innovative wine-maker, sacrificed productivity and uniformity of flavour in a constant quest for quality and distinctive characteristics, in the firm conviction that southern vines are the best suited to the pedoclimatic conditions of the "Molise countryside".

AN INHERITED COMMITMENT

Di Majo Norante has been making wine from grapes ever since 1800, as is evidenced by the old cellars underneath the square and in the old family building at Campomarino. Commitment to grape growing was inherited first of all by Luigi and then by Alessio Di Majo and continues today alongside research and experimentation. Di Majo Norante produces its own wines from grapes grown in the 85 hectare vineyard of the ancient fief of the Marquises Norante di Santa Cristina. The modern cellar will soon be flanked by a barrel store which was originally a 17th-cent. stone granary. The reason for this is that the Di Majo Norante "wine-making philosophy" is consistent with a traditional approach to grape growing and wine production, centred on preserving all the characteristics of Mediterranean wine-making..

METHODS THAT RESPECT NATURE

Di Majo Norante gives painstaking attention to grape selection and harvesting and to vinification methods in order to constantly upgrade the quality and the wholesomeness of its wines. Vines are treated only with fertilisers of organic and mineral origin and are defended by the regular removal of weeds and organic parasite control methods such as moths, while the pruning residues are removed to prevent any chance of infection. Old-fashioned methods and modern technologies make it possible to produce wines that are in many ways "organic" and which deserve being enjoyed to the full in the profound expression of their characteristic features.

A NEW WINE GEOGRAPHY

The quest for and recovery of grape species "on the verge of extinction" have prompted Di Majo Norante to produce wines with flavours rich in the personality of old farming cultures and to try and update these and develop all their potential. The “new wines from old vines” are therefore the splendid results of the pure vinification of vines traditionally at home in southern Italy and the Molise region, wines whose typical and harmonious expression is intent on designing a new geography of wine by virtue of peculiarities specific to the area and different varieties.