Thanks much to our friend Valerie Quintanilla for the chance to guest write a post on good entry wines for people looking to learn about the wonders of “vini Piemontese.”

We can’t all walk down to the higher end wine store and plunk down $275 for a bottle of Gaja’s latest release Barbarescos and Barolos to squirrel away in the wine cellar, but anyone can approach these wines and appreciate them now, with dinner tonight in fact.  (Indeed, if you filled a case with these wines, you still wouldn’t spend $275!)