Delights and others from southern Italy

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The 114 wines here were all tasted when I visited Puglia for the Radici del Sud wine competition reported on in Getting to grips with Puglia. As you will see, the competition, which used to be focused entirely on Puglia, did not attract as many entries from Sicily as from Campania, for instance. See also my reviews of specifically Puglian wines in Puglia – the tasting notes, which are complementary to those below.

See also my article about the delights of Aglianico in particular, but below are some of my conclusions about specific southern Italian grape varieties.

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