Do you have wines from great vintages in stock?
ma-gaz-ZI-no — four syllables, double 'z', stress on third.
When looking for aged wines from exceptional vintages — a collector's question that signals serious wine knowledge.
'Grandi annate' = great vintages. 'Magazzino' = storage/warehouse/cellar stock. Asking about old vintages signals you are a serious buyer. Some wineries and enotecas maintain 'library' stocks of back-vintages for exactly this type of customer.
Avete il Brunello 2010?
Do you have the 2010 Brunello?
2010 Brunello di Montalcino is considered one of the greatest Italian wines of the century
Le annate del Barolo degli anni Novanta?
Barolo vintages from the 1990s?
'90, '96, '97, '99 Barolo — exceptional vintages now fully mature
Avete qualcosa del ventesimo secolo in cantina?
Do you have anything from the twentieth century in the cellar?
The most ambitious collector's question — 20th century wines, ideally pre-2000
The 2010 vintage in Tuscany produced wines of legendary concentration and longevity — now considered among the greatest Brunello and Chianti Classico vintages in history. A bottle of Biondi-Santi Brunello 2010 'Riserva' now sells for €300–500 and will improve for another 30 years.