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Italian Red Wine
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£42.50Tasting Note: Full-bodied, velvety and intense, this Barolo is heady with vanilla, dried roses and woodland undergrowth. Food Matching: Ideal with big red meat dishes and medium mature cheeses, try a wild boar and mushroom risotto for example. Vineyard: This Barolo is named after the village where the vineyards are…
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£60.99
A sophisticated, powerful, full-bodied wine that creates a harmonious and well-balanced flavour on the palate. Sweet, rich aromas with notes of ripe fruits and spices. Generous on the palate with complex, plush tannins.
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£20.50
The Mandrarossa wines come from a selection of the best sites from Cantine Settesoli’s 6,000 hectares of vineyard, situated in southwestern Sicily and planted with 32 different grape varieties. The vineyards are split between the 2,000 members of the co-op, and cover the area around Selinunte, the hauntingly beautiful ruins…
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£89.99
At an altitude of 500m and situated in the heart of Piemonte, Abbona’s wines have a fresh imprint that gives them great drinkability and elegance. A family run winery since 1930, Anna Maria, her family and her predecessors have worked tirelessly to respect their vines and produce the best expression…
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£27.99
‘Making wines with passion’ is the moto for this 3rd generation family run estate with wineries in both Piedmont and Tuscany. Their ingrained respect for the land, the indigenous vines and their ambition, sing. Cà di Pian is a Barbera with an unmistakable character. Intense aromas of blackberry and morello…
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£16.50
Puglian wines are probably my favourite and certainly my go-to reds. I particularly love wines from Salento; the rich fruit they portray so well (you can taste the sunshine in the glass), and they are exceptional value for money. This rosso from Francesco Candido offers all of the above; opulent…
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£37.99
The Brancaia estate as we know it, celebrates its 40th birthday this year. Swiss couple Brigitte and Bruno Widmer purchased Brancaia in Castellina in Chianti in 1981 and their wines have been critically praised from the start. Having studied oenology, their daughter Barbara Widmer heads up the winemaking team whilst…
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£59.99
Paolo De Marchi’s vineyards, like those of Giovanni Manetti at Fontodi, are superbly tended. This, more than anything, yields wines of the quality that have kept them both ahead of the chasing pack for the past three decades. The name ‘Isole e Olena’ came about in the 1950s when two…
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£9.99
This is such a great, any-day wine and a favourite midweek choice in our house. An intense red ruby colour with a deep and complex nose of cherry, blackberry and violet, there are also underlying hints of oak. Gentle, juicy and charming on the palate, with smooth tannins, and a…
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£115.99
Petrolo is situated on the eastern flank of the Chianti hills, a historical area delimited in 1716 by the Grand Duke of Tuscany, Cosimo III de’ Medici, as one of Tuscany’s top four wine producing zones. The Val d‘Arno was recognised as ‘DOC Val d‘Arno di Sopra’ in 2011. The…
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£75.50
The Brancaia vineyard is located at an altitude of 230m with exposure to the south. The Poppi vineyard is at an altitude of 400 m, exposure to the south. Free-standing spur training system. Density of 3,600 – 5.700 vines per hectare. Hand-picked harvest. Delectable modern Chianti, aromatic and savoury, full…
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£21.50
‘Making wines with passion’ is the moto for this 3rd generation family run winery in Tuscany and underpins everything that they do. Their ingrained respect for the land, the indigenous vines and their ambition, sing. This wonderful wine has aromas of ripe blackberries, blueberries and cherries, all underlined by a…