Some good value Italian wines recommended this week

This week I am returning to Italy with a scattered selection of suggestions that range from north to south.

Italy’s wine output is huge and it is impossible to generalise about the country’s wines and difficult to grasp the diversity of the world’s largest wine producer.

Jancis Robinson’s definitive book on wine grapes lists 377 different grapes that are grown commercially for wine production in Italy, more than any other country (France comes second with 204).