Red Red Wine

When in Italy, drink Italian wine. It works, the wine here is cheap. The hard part is that I don't know what the different varietals here are all about. I mean, in California we have a lot of French grapes and we're used to those French names. So picking Italian wines is tough!

One Italian wine I knew I liked is Nero D'avola. It's a Sicilian wine. I would liken it to shiraz. Fruity and spicy. Both of these bottles were less than two Euros, and both were very drinkable. The D'alleramo was a little fruitier (black cherry, to me), and the Rocche had more spice.



Now these next two Zagalia wines I picked blindly. The primitivo is from Puglia. That was not my favorite. It had a touch of bitterness. Perhaps it would be better a few years on, it might mellow out!



The negroamaro from Salento I did like. It was fruity, but not as spicy as the others. It was quite drinkable.

More wine adventures will follow, I hope!