While wondering around one of the local wine stores a number of years ago, we stumbled on a white Italian wine with an unusual name in an unusual bottle from a producer in the Campania region called Taburno. For a price of $17, it was worth a try. Since that time,...
We are always trying wines, white or red, that will match well with lighter meals of salad and fresh fish. We have several “go-to” wines from Italy, including Arneis, a white Italian grape from Piedmont, Italy. There are a number of growing regions for...
We start this series of 20 under $20 with one of the best, most alluring, and maybe the most obscure wines of Italy. Rosso di Spicca (Pronounced Row-So dee Spee-ka) is a Ovietano Rosso – a red wine coming from the Ovieto region of Umbria in central Italy. Many...
Cheap doesn’t always mean bad – but you’ve got to be careful. We’ve unfortunately been stuck with bad cheap wine, mostly at restaurants (that we no longer frequent). We’ve had some bad expensive wine (mostly from folks who don’t...
