February 'Exclusively' Italian Wine Tasting

This is the end of the bottle so it may not be showing its best: a bit severe, green fruited and chalky in texture. But has a more mineral overlay at first and then a creamy finish. Distinctive a br...

Delicately floral and grapey. Bone dry and grainy like fresh pears. Creamy and deep on the palate but finishes nicely dry.

So pleased to have persuaded Manni to give us some of his cult Sylvaner and oh what a joy. With intensity and purity it opens with wild flowers, delicate citrus and just a touch of stone fruit. T br...

Nice aromatic blackberry, dark cherry, touch of mocha, maybe even floral nose. Slick and bright, lovely supple dark fruit, cherries and blackberry, delicious acidity, beautiful shape ripe tannins br...

Gorgeous. A really pleasing style of Dolcetto. Great classic character but with a soft and beautifully 'easy' side too. Dark and yet with a bright crack of cherry skin too that adds lift and a fr br...

Crisp, classic Dolcetto. Alive with deep red fruits and cooked cherry, kept lively by nice brisk acidity.

This 'baby Barolo' has such a fun and bright attack, with impressive intensity. There is some satisfying 'chew' as it opens on the palate and then easy, cherry flesh joy. Pepper-spiced red flesh br...