No new post from me today but instead, links to a couple of pages reviewing and talking about Italian wine. I read both of these guys blogs regularly and, if you love Italian wine, recommend you do too. Tom Hyland at Learn Italian Wines puts Grattamacco 2008 (just arrived here) into his top wines of the year [...]

At our Sydney tasting last week, I would have loved a euro for every question on the Italian wine classification system. The short response – “it’s mostly bullshit” failed to convince a few, so the long version was “don’t worry about them, learn some grape varieties and regions you like best, and buy on the [...]