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5218 Lawton Avenue
Oakland, CA 94114

510-654-9159

Oliver McCrum Wines has been importing small production Italian wine and distributing to fine retail and restaurant establishes throughout California since 1994. Over time, our portfolio of producers has steadily grown to over 45 producers from 15 different regions of Italy. We look for typical Italian wines with clarity and freshness, usually made from indigenous Italian grape varieties using clean, transparent winemaking techniques and no obvious use of oak. 

Basilicata

Oliver’s Notes:

What is a ‘noble’ grape variety? It must make wine that has attractive, strong, and distinctive flavors, and that ages well. Judged by these qualities Aglianico is one of the three or four best red wine varieties in Italy, and one of the best anywhere; I drank a 1968 Mastroberardino Taurasi when it was about 50 years old, too old for most of the world’s classic red wines, and it was vivid, exciting, excellent, and extremely distinctive, one of the best wines I’ve drunk in more than 40 years in the wine business.

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