Good Red Italian Wines

[cw_reinhard]

I am in Rome now and I am studying the language, art history, and business for a few months. I was curious if someone might know of a good red wine that I can bring back to the states. Price is not a problem but if there is reasonably priced wine, I would be interested to hear about it. Thank you,
Creighton

[Thomas]

Here is an idea:
taste the red wines that you can find in Rome and take home the ones you like.

[Jackie]

Dear CW-Reinhard,

Welcome! As a new member, you may not have had a chance to try the "search" features yet. I found several recommendations for wines you might want to pick up whilst in Rome.... Try a search on the word "recommend" in the Italian Wines/Varieties forum (any date).

Also, this board has been in existence over one and a half years... You may be seeing only the last 30 days or so. You can change this at any time using the drop-down menu that appears at the top of each forum.

I'm sure you'll get more suggestion here in a day or so.

Jackie

[Innkeeper]

Recommend any Italian Red ending in a vowel. However, Foodie's advice about tasting is very important. Wines can vary greatly from producer to producer, and year to year. Would also normally include region to region, but it Italy, generally speaking, grapes confine themselves to a single region. Welcome to the Wine Board.

[Garbo]

Lucky you! Foodie is right -- enjoy your time, taste everything and bring back some of what you like. We found a very friendly and inexpensive wine bar/shop on the Campo dei Fiore that has an extensive selection of wines by the glass; I think it's called the Vineria but I'm not sure. Plus, it's a fun area to hang out in at night. Also, you might try finding an English language bookshop -- we found a great guide to Italian wine that was helpful in showing which years were best for which varieties.