DRINK DIFFERENT - SOAVE

One of Italy’s most under-rated wines, Soave is a name which is familiar to most wine drinkers.  Unfortunately, many will only know it through watery, pale imitations of what it should be: intense, minerally and long-lived. 

Made from the Gargenega grape in the Vento region of northern Italy, much of the best Soave is kept by the Italians, and the good stuff which makes its way to the UK can be expensive.

To find an alternative, we must look further south, to the region of Campania, south of Rome.  Here the grape Greco di Tufo gives us apricot and lemon zest fruit, minerals (from the volcanic soils), and an equally long-lived white wine, at a fraction of the cost of a decent Soave.