Wine with Leslie: Italian wine is the perfect cure for late January blues

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Italy is the perfect cure for late January blues, in my opinion

On the day this column appears I will be in Venice, hopefully sipping an early lunchtime glass of Nebbiolo or Etna Rosso with some cicchetti around the time you read this.

Cicchetti are the Venetian version of tapas and can be anything from a meatball on a toothpick to some small sea creature on a crostini, to an octopus tentacle coiled around a stick of cucumber, or maybe just some lardo on a slice of baguette. Cicchetti are generally eaten standing up in a bar or from a deli counter, and of course are accompanied by a glass of red, rosé, or white — my mouth is salivating already.