Le Piane 'Boca' DOC, 2015 thomas hooker Jacob and Allie were sitting

Jacob and Allie were sitting having lunch at this very winery drinking some old Chianti when they decided to open The Wise Old Dog back in 2011

This wine is 100% Riesling from the Pfalz region of Germany

including such rare sites as village-level Puligny Folatières (Lalou Bize-Leroy bottles the only other parcel from this section of Folatières)

This wine is 100% Syrah from Côte-Rôtie

30% Viognier

Le Piane 'Boca' DOC, 2015 thomas hooker Jacob and Allie were sittingThis wine is made of 85% Nebbiolo and 15% Vespolina. Cooler temperatures, rustic tannin, and beguiling fruit send this bottling straight to the cellar for potentially decades of development or, with a decant, RIGHT to the dinner table tonight with braised beef short ribs. Boca is one of the oldest DOC's in Northern Italy, and is tucked into the northeastern most corner of Piedmont. In the early 1900's, the region's financial efforts left Boca for the