Wine with Leslie: Italy still pouring out new surprises

All the wines I feature are from grapes unique to Italy.

This week I’m returning to Italy, and almost all the wines I feature are from grapes unique to that gorgeous country. I’ve written before about the diversity in Italy’s grape stocks and I should be well used to it by now. Yet Italy constantly surprises me, and it is the diversity of flavours that keeps me coming back for more.

A couple of weeks ago I featured Giol Verduzzo from near Treviso in the Veneto — a gorgeous lemony-fresh wine with pear and apple fruits (Quay Co-op, Vintry). I was vaguely aware of Verduzzo but this was the first time I’d found one to feature — well this week I have two more white grapes from northern Italy that I had never tasted before.