Place: Valpolicella

A COMPREHENSIVE SERIES OF ARTICLES ON THIS TOPIC

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Wine with Leslie Williams: The white grapes of Southern Italy

I’ve written about Puglia, Sicily, and even Calabria frequently but much less about Basilicata and Campania, both small wine regions but not to be dismissed.

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Wine with Leslie Williams: The Italian harvest is in full swing

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Wine with Leslie Williams

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Some of the best wines from northern Italy

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Wines of the week with Leslie Williams

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SuperValu have an Italian wine sale beginning soon

Some wonderful wines to try from southern Italy

This week I want to tell you a little about the wines of Southern Italy. I use the word ‘little’ advisedly as you could write several books about the subject taking it region by region.

Sat, 22 Apr, 2017

Wine: Tackling 'dry January'

There has been a lot of publicity about the new UK alcohol guidelines and much discussion about the benefits of a “dry January” these past few weeks. I’m not convinced.

Sat, 16 Jan, 2016

Wine: A profile of Gérard Bertrand

This week - a mini profile of Gérard Bertrand, one of the best-known winemakers of the Languedoc, perhaps France’s most dynamic wine region.

Sat, 07 Nov, 2015

Add some vino to Venice for a perfect Veneto trip

Tony Clayton-Lea flies into Venice and makes his way around one of Italy’s most famous regions to experience beautiful landscapes, hidden gems, vineyards and glorious late spring sunshine

Sat, 02 May, 2015

Picking out some of Italy’s finest wines

In recent weeks, I have been praising Spain as a source of good value but this week I want to focus on Italy.

Sat, 18 Apr, 2015

Wine: Pleno Tempranillo, €9.99

THE Government’s proposal to introduce minimum pricing on alcohol following the recent budget increases will probably mean an end to the €5 bottle of wine in the supermarket.

Sun, 03 Nov, 2013

Tagus Creek Shiraz Touriga Nacional Rosé

IRELAND has become a nation of wine drinkers in a very short time but the wines we drink now are quite different to those sampled in the mid-2000s.

Sun, 17 Feb, 2013

Some excellent Valentines day wine suggestions

VALENTINE’S DAY, next Thursday, is probably your first good excuse to splash out on a decent bottle of wine since Christmas.

Sun, 10 Feb, 2013

Brangelina selling Hollywood home

Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie are selling their Californian mansion for $13.75m (€9.5m).

Tue, 23 Aug, 2011

Giuliano Hazan’s Tagliatelle with Chickpeas

One of the restaurants we enjoy going to when we are in Valpolicella, the wine country outside of Verona, is Alla Rosa Alda, in the tiny hilltop town of San Giorgio. One of their specialities is a pasta dish they call ‘tagliatelle embogonè’, in the local dialect. It is homemade egg noodles, with a sauce of fresh cranberry beans. When I was growing up, my mother made a soup with chickpeas, tomatoes and rosemary that I loved. I’ve adapted it here, taking inspiration from Alla Rosa Alda’s dish, into a pasta sauce that is now one of our favourites at home.

Sat, 09 Jan, 2010