Winefriend by David Way

Writing about the wines of Piemonte, Italy and France

Lazio

The wines of Lazio

2001

Ageing Grechetto

Sergio Mottura knows how to tell a yarn.  His account of how he took the unregarded Grechetto grape variety and turned into into a prize-winning, oak-aged, ageable wine is laced with equal proportions of commitment to the variety, ambition for the wine and a certain disregard for precision when it comes to technical terms.  His

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La Parrina – last stop in Tuscany

La Parrina is a unique Tuscan wine estate near the border with Lazio.  In general, terms is it on the Southern Tuscan coast now chiefly famous as a holiday destination.  Each year millions of tourists, principally Italians, flock to enjoy the Italian seaside experience of closely packed togetherness on the beaches, in the restaurants, at

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