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Italian Wine

Tuscany and Piedmont, with Antinori and Ornellaia at the centre

Italian wine here means two regions rather than twenty. Tuscany carries most of it - Antinori from Pèppoli Chianti Classico up to Tignanello, Ornellaia's Le Volte and Le Serre Nuove from Bolgheri, Tenuta Luce, and Ciacci Piccolomini in Montalcino. Piedmont brings Prunotto's Barolo, Barbaresco and Langhe Nebbiolo, with Gavi from Broglia and Produttori del Gavi. Tracked UK delivery, next-day available.

Broglia La Meirana Gavi di Gavi white wine bottle.
Broglia La Meirana Gavi di Gavi (2025)
£18.00
Produttori del Gavi Mille951 Gavi del Comune di Gavi white wine bottle.
Mille951 Gavi del Comune di Gavi, Produttori del Gavi, Piedmont
£16.50
Ciacci Piccolomini Rosso di Montalcino red wine bottle.
Ciacci Piccolomini Rosso di Montalcino (2024)
£22.00
Pèppoli Chianti Classico red wine bottle.
Pèppoli Chianti Classico, Antinori, Tuscany (2024)
£22.00
Antinori Bramito della Sala Chardonnay bottle.
Antinori Bramito della Sala Chardonnay (2024)
£26.00
Guado al Tasso Il Bruciato red wine bottle.
FW Fave
Guado al Tasso Il Bruciato, Bolgheri
£33.00
Ciacci Piccolomini IGT Toscana Rosso red wine bottle.
Ciacci Piccolomini IGT Toscana Rosso (2024)
£15.00
Ornellaia Le Volte dell'Ornellaia red wine bottle.
Ornellaia Le Volte dell'Ornellaia, Tuscany (2023)
£26.50
Prunotto Occhetti Langhe Nebbiolo red wine bottle.
Prunotto 'Occhetti' Langhe Nebbiolo, Piedmont (2023)
£25.50
Lucente Tenuta Luce red wine bottle.
FW Fave
Lucente, Tenuta Luce (2022)
£36.00
Tignanello Antinori red wine bottle.
Tignanello, Antinori, Tuscany
From £135.00
Ornellaia Le Serre Nuove dell’Ornellaia red wine bottle.
Ornellaia Le Serre Nuove dell’Ornellaia, Bolgheri Rosso, (2022)
£60.00
Prunotto Barbaresco Bric Turot (2021)
£52.50
Prunotto Bussia Barolo red wine bottle.
Prunotto Bussia Barolo, Piedmont (2021)
£75.00
Tenuta Luce red wine bottle.
Tenuta Luce 2020, Tuscany, 75cl
£110.00
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Tuscan wine: Chianti Classico, Bolgheri and Montalcino

Tuscany carries most of this page, and it covers three distinct things. Chianti Classico is the traditional heart of it, Sangiovese-based and represented here by Antinori's Pèppoli. Bolgheri on the coast is the newer story, where Ornellaia and Antinori's Guado al Tasso work with Cabernet and Merlot rather than the local grape. Montalcino is the third, home to Ciacci Piccolomini, where Sangiovese is grown for a firmer, longer-lived style. Tenuta Luce spans the last two.

Piedmont: Barolo, Barbaresco and Gavi

Piedmont is the other region on the list, and Prunotto covers its reds. Barolo and Barbaresco are both made from Nebbiolo in neighbouring areas - Barbaresco the softer and earlier-drinking, Barolo the firmer and longer-lived - with Occhetti Langhe Nebbiolo as the everyday version of the same grape. For white, Gavi is made from Cortese, and both the Broglia La Meirana and the Produttori del Gavi bottling come from the commune of Gavi itself.

What a Super Tuscan is, and why Tignanello matters

In the 1970s the Tuscan appellation rules required white grapes in a Chianti blend and barred international varieties. Antinori ignored them, put Cabernet Sauvignon and Cabernet Franc into a Sangiovese base, and had to sell the result as basic table wine. That wine was Tignanello, and within a decade it and the bottles that followed had forced the rules to change. Ornellaia's Le Volte and Le Serre Nuove come from the same movement. More sits under smooth and refined reds.

Italian wine as a gift, and tracked UK delivery

Tignanello and the Ornellaia wines are recognised well beyond people who follow wine closely, which makes them straightforward gifts for anyone who drinks red. Bottles bought to drink ship in packaging built to protect them rather than to present them; where one is going as a gift, the Champagne gifts range covers the boxed and ribboned side of the shop. Orders go tracked across the UK mainland with next-day available.

The Fulham Wine Co. Take

Italy rewards going deep rather than wide, and Tuscany and Piedmont are where we have gone. Between Antinori, Ornellaia and Tenuta Luce you can taste the whole arc of what Tuscany did to itself over forty years, from Chianti Classico through the Super Tuscans and back again. Everything here is a bottle we open at home.

FAQs About Italian Wine

What is the difference between Chianti Classico and a Super Tuscan?

Chianti Classico is a defined area with rules requiring Sangiovese to lead the blend. A Super Tuscan is a Tuscan red made outside those rules, usually by using Cabernet Sauvignon or Merlot alone or alongside Sangiovese. Tignanello is the wine that started it; Pèppoli is the Chianti Classico on this page.

Which Italian red should I choose if I do not know the producer?

Start with region rather than name. Tuscany gives you a rounder, more approachable red; Piedmont's Barolo and Barbaresco are firmer and want more time or more air. If you want something you can open tonight without thinking, a Tuscan bottle is the safer answer.

What is Gavi?

A dry white from Piedmont made from the Cortese grape - light, citrus-driven and unoaked. The best examples come from the commune of Gavi itself rather than the wider zone, and both bottles here do.

Does this page cover all of Italy?

No, and deliberately not. The range is Tuscany and Piedmont rather than a bottle from each of Italy's twenty regions. Both are places we buy several wines from and know well, which we would rather do than cover the map thinly.

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