Italy

From just outside Lecce in the heart of Salento comes this cracking example of Primitivo. Bright and perky this has a fine zippy line that makes it not only food friendly but very moreish. Cherry skin and cooked damson a...(read more)

A blend of 90% Sangiovese 5% Canaiolo and 5% Malvasia Nera. Jacopo Morganti's flagship wine improves year on year as he gets to know the plots better and the average vine age increases. Good weight and typical Chianti id...(read more)

Just such a sleek and supple style, filled with woodland fruits, briar, plum and fragrant herbs. Lovely feel and grip, lots of ripe berry fruit in the core, then delicate aniseed and herbs. Great with stews, roasts and o...(read more)

This is a lighter bodied style with a lighter crimson hue to match. Lovely intensity of strawberry, cherry and raspberry fruit, the palate has a gentle extraction of ripe acid, that underpins a succulent fruitiness, roun...(read more)

Always a later release than you would normally find and as a result a finer and more complex wine. Sleek, with a distinct freshness and elegance, loganberry, mulberry and a dusty chocolate note. Tannins are fine and add...(read more)

When a sparkling red sings, like this example from Emilia-Romagna, it offers a lovely fusion of red fruit, grippy tannins and delicate acidity.

The 2020 remains true to the lovely, delicate style of Valpolicella that we now expect from this brilliant estate. Pretty and pale in the glass this delivers intense strawberry and cherry fruits, gentle floral notes and...(read more)

From the wonderful Rafaella Bissoni and her beautiful farm up in the hills of Emilia-Romagna, this is always so much fun, sleek and pure with cherry, tobacco, plum and mocha aromas and flavours. Watch out big name Sangio...(read more)

Bright damson, blackberry, cherry fruit nose, fragrant and fresh. Palate has zip and freshness, core of bright woodland fruits, vigour and intensity, sappy and gorgeously drinkable.

Fresh red fruits, cherry, raspberry, crisp, with grip and tension, dark fleshy fruit core, quite serious.

In comparison with the Classico this has more sinew and is a little firmer fruited. A more direct line of less juicy fruit. It's all round a more serious, cerebral style from Signor Ferrari. It is the purity and the love...(read more)