Wine with Leslie Williams

Italy has been neglected on this page of late but I promise to make up for this in the next few weeks as I have two trips planned — one to Tuscany and one to the Veneto. There are colleagues of mine in the wine world that are older and more experienced than me that still don’t get Italy. It is true that Italy’s wines do sometimes exhibit more rusticity and that you are more likely to find volatile acidity and other faults than from say France, but I love their energy, diversity and vibrancy.

There are at least 330 grapes grown in Italy and with modern viticultural methods and know-how many so called workhorse grapes are being treated with new respect and are gaining fans. Grapes like teroldego