As I said last week, this weekly newsletter is our way of including you in our conversation about wine. If you really want to go further into the discussion 3BOTTLES (our monthly wine club) is the way to go.  Click here for more info.

3BOTTLES this month is about the wines of Italy and there are 3 very different and interesting wines along with a 5 page text and only costs $55. And the Weekend Wine is a part of the 3BOTTLES set and comes from Tuscany.

Here are two short paragraphs from this month’s 3BOTTLES:

There are 20 wine regions in Italy, and no two are alike. When you travel in France, from say the Rhone into Provence, there are many culinary and viticulture similarities. In Italy, these rifts can seem vast: wholesale changes occurring in food and wine as one passes across regional boundaries. For the curious drinker this is a very good thing. The wines of Italy are diverse, offering us an endless array of distinctive tastes and styles.

Lex Alexander

 

At The Center of Wine... It must be frustrating to be an Italian wine maker, or an Italian-born wine historian for that matter. For millennia, at least since boatloads of Greeks started rowing ashore and planting grapes, your homeland has been the cradle of viticulture. Vines are everywhere in Italy, and Italians beginning in the early years of the Roman empire pushed the cultivation of the vine outward across the continent. As an Italian, your wine culture should be (and probably is) a source of great pride. It is interwoven with dozens of regional culinary subcultures, traditions based on the tremendously diverse agricultural bounty of this arable land. Italy has at least 3,000 indigenous grape varietals to call its own. But someone else has owned the limelight...

Jay Murrie