Italians wine to choose from this weekend

Italy is on my mind this week having recently watched the documentary Natural Resistance at the Grainstore in Ballymaloe about rebel “natural” wine makers in Italy.

The excellent “rustic Italian” meal served afterwards featured wines from the film provided by Le Caveau and most worked well with the food.

One of the wines served was an “orange wine”, a white wine fermented on its skins like a red wine, a process that obliterates all varietal and regional character in my view. While the wine was pleasant enough to drink and matched the radicchio salad (and seemed to go down well with the audience), I remain to be convinced.