Wine Recommendations

A close friend of mine is a wine guru on the NYC circuit. He recently recommended these wines to me, none of which my local liquor store carries. Try them out and post a review here. If you can find a good house of Ribolla Gialla (Italian White) you'll be impressed. Hard to find. For the Syracuse area you might want to try Vernaccia di San Gimignano [sp], a splendid Italian White; Verdiccio (Italian white); Evolution (Oregon) fun white; Aglianico del Vulture exotic Italian red (buy an early vintage, younger the better); Lagrein (Italian Red from Trentino-Alto Adige); Valtellina Superiore (Sassella, or Grumello, or Inferno) Italian red from Lombardia AWEsome. Or Amarone, serious Italian red from Italy Veneto.