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Check our Wine Guides if you are interested to learn more about the best Italian Wines – including Barolo, Chianti Classico, Amarone, Primitivo, or Prosecco and many more.

The Ultimate Guide to The Best Italian Wines will be a great start, it will give you a quite thorough overview of all key Italian denominations. It covers main winemaking areas: from Barolo DOCG and Alba in Piemonte, to Alto Adige DOC in the North-East, to Vermentino of Sardinia and Montepulciano d’Abruzzo, all the way to Puglia’s legendary Primitivo in the very South.

You will also find a helpful article “How to choose the best Italian Red Wine”, as well as essential tips on food pairing with most famous Italian wines.

Read our guides and enjoy your wine in moderation – ciao!

02 Dec

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How to choose the best wine for Christmas dinner?

2 December 2020
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Choosing the best wine for Christmas dinner can be tricky. After all, it's the most important meal of the year. There are lots of different flavours to think of when picking your drinks: traditional treats like pigs in blankets, luxurious sides like dauphinoise potatoes...

29 Oct

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Italian Wine Gifts: Our Best Reds and Whites for Under £25

29 October 2020
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Can you find a truly delightful Italian wine gift for less than £25? The answer is "yes" - you don't need to spend a fortune to show your friends how much you love them. Whether they prefer big juicy reds or light and fruity...

27 Oct

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Twelve Premium Italian Wines to Gift this Christmas

27 October 2020
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Christmas is all about eating, drinking and being merry. It's the time of year where we splash a little extra cash to make our friends, family and colleagues feel loved. If you're planning on giving wine as a gift, now is the time to...

15 Oct

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Wine Gifts: the Essential Guide

3 November 2020
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Over the past year, we’ve been sending wine as gifts to customers all across the UK. So we’ve decided to share some practical tips with you. Find out which wine is best to choose as a gift, how to send a wine gift by...

09 Sep

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Ask the experts: why are the best Italian wines always made from hand-picked grapes?

13 September 2020
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It's common knowledge that the best Italian wines are made from hand-picked grapes, but have you ever wondered why? Hand picking is a feature that winemakers often shout about. Usually, grapes for inexpensive mass-produced wines are picked by machines. Prestigious vineyards –...

25 Aug

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Which of the The WineHunter’s best Italian wines can you buy in the UK?

25 August 2020
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Every year, panels of experts gather at The WineHunter's Merano WineFestival to decide which Italian wines are the best. But a few months before that, they blind-taste and score thousands of bottles over the course of a few days to find the most outstanding...

20 Aug

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Alto Adige: Where to taste aromatic Pinot Noir and Gewurztraminer from Alpine vineyards

25 August 2020
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This August, Elvira and I hopped in our car and drove 1,500 miles from Edinburgh to Alto Adige to meet our winemakers. This denomination is home to Europe’s highest vineyards, planted on the slopes of the Dolomite Alps, and it’s stunningly beautiful. We had...

24 Jul

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A wine-tasting getaway to the land of Barolo, Arneis and Moscato: where to stay and what to taste

24 July 2020
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If you adore Italian wines like powerful Barolo and Barbaresco, light and sweet Moscato d’Alba, and deliciously floral Roero Arneis, it's hard to beat a wine tasting holiday in Piedmont. After months of lockdown, we're all desperate to get out into the world again. And,...

29 Jun

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Where does Chianti Classico get its zingy cherry flavour?

28 July 2020
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Have you ever wondered where does Chianti Classico get its zingy cherry flavour? Every fan of Chianti Classico can instantly recognise the wine's captivating freshness. For those who aren't familiar with it, the palette marries fresh cherry with flavoursome aromas of chocolate, vanilla, hazelnut...

16 Jun

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Are premium and inexpensive wines produced in the same way?

27 August 2020
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Inexpensive wines are only supposed to be enjoyable for a short time after purchase. They need to be made at a large scale, and the winemaking is done as fast as possible – often using automation and chemicals. Grapes are picked by mechanical harvesters,...

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