Italian wine

Campania – introduction

Campania is one of the historic wine areas of Italy – the Romans prized the wine from Ager Falernum (now revived as Palermo) – for great fresco from Pompeii, see:   Roman fresco at Pompeii No doubt their predecessors, the Samnites, could cook up a great brew or two.   As the map shows, they certainly had

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Party wines

One of the risks of going to parties is the range of competent but dull wines you may encounter.  Things look up however if the party is thrown by a member of a wine club and lots of the wine club are there.  While no one would expect rare or valuable bottles, finding interesting party

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