by Michèle Shah

Tuscany exploded on the world stage when the Super Tuscans appeared in the late 1980s. Wine lovers couldn’t get enough of them and the style’s future seemed secure. Yet now, writes Michèle Shah, there is a swing back to traditional winemaking.

by Michèle Shah

Italy is a patchwork of the world’s most diverse microclimates, unusual soils, exciting scenery and anarchic producers. Few doubt that it produces, in small volumes, many of the world’s finest wines; but it is also a land where unity, strategy and brands are still taboo.