The New Italy: A Complete Guide to Contemporary Italian Wine

by Daniele Cernilli, Marco Sabellico

More than 150 full-color photographs and specially designed maps complement a fascinating tour of the wine regions of Italy that examines the grape varieties, climate, geography, and winemaking traditions of diverse locales; profiles the top producers in every region; and describes their finest wines.

Genres: Wine

224 pages, Hardcover

First published October 1, 2000

Reviews

[Badbasset · Rating 2 out of 5]

Having read The New France, (superb), and The New Spain, ( very good), I was keen to get on to this as I love Italian wine. Unfortunately it's a big disappointment. Much less personal than the other books, it essentially provides generic information rather than insight. If you already have a good basic knowledge of Itanian wine this will not add much. It has the feel of a churned out book as if someone said, 'oh God, I suppose we better do an Italian book now'. Why or why, for instance did the editor allow the descriptions of individual producers in each region to be listed randomly rather than in alphabetical order, lazy and absolutely maddening if you want to quickly look up a particular producer.