I’ve always thought I didn’t like Italian wines.When I started to take wine seriously I decided that Italian reds were thin and acidic and the whites tasteless. So every time I went to an Italian restaurant I ordered from the cheaper end of the wine list and had my dislike confirmed. Every now and then I was surprised, by a big-hearted Barolo for instance, or an old Chianti when visiting Tuscany, but the next cheap Valpolicella or Montepulciano d’Abruzzo would set me back to my old way of thinking. So when I saw that our very own branch of Majestic was offering a tasting of Italian wines recently I signed up, keen to put my prejudices to the test.
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