Le Coste

I feel that there is no other drop that resonates or vibrates as loudly or as deeply as when new releases from Le Coste arrive in town. I was chatting about this with my friend Reilly, who recently wrote a beautiful email about the project for Psychic Wines, the other evening. When wines of this power arrive en masse like this, where does one even begin, how does one unpack such density? With this many new cuvées and releases, a year would seem appropriate to even begin to unlock what these wines have to offer. I’m not sure I, nor anyone else, has that much time.

Like all of the winegrowers that get me the most excited, Le Coste have forged forward with a path all their own, and at the same time have never disregarded tradition. In their case, tradition taken from both Italian and French winemaking schools. Similar to Jean-Yves Peron’s lineup of wines that feature Italian négoce fruit vinified in the Savoie, there is a sense of transit, specifically in Clementine and Gianmarco’s wines that come from massale cuttings from their friends in France—most notably Bruno Schueller’s Pinot Noir rootstock, and recently cuttings from Yann Durieux in Burgundy—both massale selections that find themselves in the new Pinotto cuvée; a high energy carbonic maceration of Pinot Nero, with a dash of Syrah added for a level of mineral depth. But whereas JYP’s wines in that series come from purchased fruit, Clementine and Gianmarco take the source material and plant it anew, integrating new roots into their already special property above the volcanic Lago di Bolsena.

Like Cy Twombly’s Bolsena series, in which Reilly deftly compares to the Le Coste wines for her Psychic piece, the wines of Clementine Bouveron and Gianmarco Antonuzzi consistently present themselves as spiritually resonant abstractions—juices that push towards the unknown, yet always remain rooted in place.



Litrozzo Rosato 2020 Liter
Aleatico / Sangiovese / Merlot /Procanico
$26

The staple party liter back in stock





SOS Lago 2019
Aleatico
$38

If this were in deodorant form I’d wear it every day—the most intoxicating nose and incredibly fresh on the palate





Bianco de Coccio Anfora 2019
Procanico / Malvasia / Moscato
$48

The first time Le Coste have released a wine aged in terra cotta amphora





Rosato 2019
Aleatico
$48

The wine that Clementine and Gianmarco have become most known for, and for good reason





Pinotto 2019
Pinot Nero with a touch of Syrah
$48

Young Pinot Noir carbonically macerated for a month before a year of aging—a quintessential new addition to the already deep lineup





Carbo 2018
Sangiovese
$48

Made only in what Le Coste deem “stellar vintages,” this is carbonically macerated Sangiovese selected from their highest elevation plot





Bianco R 2018 
Procanico
$53

Their staple Bianco taken to psychedelic heights—complex, savory and mineral





Due M 2018
Moscato / Moscato Giallo 
$72

My heart flutters when I think about this wine





Primeur 2020 MAG
Aleatico
$85

Not sure that there is a red wine more suited for the magnum format than this





Rosato 2019 MAG
Aleatico
$112

Big Rosato





Le Vigne Vecchie 2011
Procanico
$150

A special selection of Procanico aged in foudre for two years, and then another eight years in bottle before release.





Rosato 2019 JEROBOAM
Aleatico
$315

Bigger Rosato