Italy

This Negroamaro surprised us enormously when we first tasted it in Italy. As they go this is really rather a pretty example. Perfumed and sweetly spiced. A whiff of baked plum and cloves hits you...(read more)

This fabulously inviting, sparkling red bursts all the myths about Lambrusco by being dry and joyously drinkable. Grown organically on clay and limestone soils the results are fantastic. Fresh br...(read more)

A real joy, svelte, with lots of woodland fruits, a hint of earth and tobacco, a gentle soul, with balance and great drinkability.

Beautifully made with huge care and attention by Raffaella Bissoni, totally in tune with nature this is a completely joyous, bold and ripe style of Sangiovese. It really does capture the warmth o...(read more)

Lovely bright red fruit, floral nose, ripe and attractive. Palate has lovely fruit weight, good grip on the mid palate, with damson and blackberry fruit, touch of hawthorn and violets. Ripe prett...(read more)

Piero Lanza's declassified Chianti Classico is designed for drinking young, being all about the super-bright, unoaked cherry fruit which, in this vintage, is in super-succulent shape all the way...(read more)

As ever Caterina's Rosso is beautifully elegant. Loaded with nicely perky damson and blackberry fruit, balanced and surprising weight of rounded fruit matter. Some gentle grip to the tannins here...(read more)

The 2016 Dolcetto d'Alba Bric del Salto is gracious and light on its feet, with tons of varietal character, but a bit less richness than is typically the case for this wine. Lavender, licorice, r...(read more)

Blackberry and black cherry fruit, nice purity, directness. Ripe with lovely bright fruit palate, cherry, blackberry and plum fruit, silky, sleek and immediate.