Italian Wines to try

[Innkeeper]

Bonjour Puccino. Here are two approaches. Since the overwhelming majority of Italian never leaves home, most of what you will experiance you will never experiance again. Having said that, there is no need to fret. Decide whether you want red or wine wine with the food on hand and ask for Rosso or Bianco.

The second approach is to structure you trip by region and make a list in advance of which wines you want to try in each region. In Piedmont you want to try Dolcetto and Barbera. If you have the scratch, look for mature Barolos and Barbarescos. In Trentino-Alto Adige look for Teroldego Rotaliano. In Tuscany, where food and wine matching is an art, you have all the sangiovese based wines and blends. I like Rosso Di Montalcino. In the Marches, don't miss Rosso Piceno and Rosso Conero. In Apulia look for Salice Salentino and Primitivo. In Sicily, all the versions of Corvo and its blends. If you get all the way up to Collio in the northeast corner by the Slovenian boarder, look for the varietel merlot that grows there on ancient vines.