Italy grows hundreds of native grapes and names its wines after villages, grapes and hillsides, sometimes all at once. This guide makes sense of it, region by region, from the Barolo hills of Piedmont to the volcanic slopes of Etna.
Each of the 16 regions gets two illustrated pages covering its history, climate and soils, its key grapes, the names to look for on a label and the bottles worth seeking out.
What's inside
Piedmont, Lombardy, Trentino-Alto Adige, Veneto, Friuli and Emilia-Romagna
Tuscany, Umbria, Marche, Lazio and Abruzzo
Campania, Puglia, Basilicata, Sicily and Sardinia
A shaded wine map of Italy and two pages on reading an Italian label (DOCG, Classico, Riserva and more)
Classic bottles at every price, food matches and my verdict on each region
A one-page cheat sheet of all 16 regions
Italy grows hundreds of native grapes and names its wines after villages, grapes and hillsides, sometimes all at once. This guide makes sense of it, region by region, from the Barolo hills of Piedmont to the volcanic slopes of Etna.
Each of the 16 regions gets two illustrated pages covering its history, climate and soils, its key grapes, the names to look for on a label and the bottles worth seeking out.
What's inside
Piedmont, Lombardy, Trentino-Alto Adige, Veneto, Friuli and Emilia-Romagna
Tuscany, Umbria, Marche, Lazio and Abruzzo
Campania, Puglia, Basilicata, Sicily and Sardinia
A shaded wine map of Italy and two pages on reading an Italian label (DOCG, Classico, Riserva and more)
Classic bottles at every price, food matches and my verdict on each region
A one-page cheat sheet of all 16 regions
