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Generously flavoured, spicy red with the balance and structure to age well. 85% sangiovese and 15% bacca rossa, it's from a small organically farmed estate and offers red-berry fruit framed with cedar and a long silky finish. This is a great wine to pair with sausage and mash or mushroom risotto.

This small, family-owned estate has old aglianico vineyards that are at 500 metres on exposed volcanic soils, lending the wine a vivid freshness and a ferrous minerality to balance the concentrated red-plum and blackberry fruit. With powerful tannic structure and a dried herb lift, this is a full-bodied classic.

Frappato can be seen as Sicily's answer to Beaujolais. Pale in colour and juicy in character, this example from Planeta is a step up from the simpler expressions; it is sappy and with a peppery edge on the palate, and bursting with pomegranate, red cherry and raspberry fruit. Supple, bright and refreshing, this is perfect lightly chilled.

The guardavalle grape, native to Calabria in the toe of Italy and organically grown, has produced this wonderfully individual, salted-apple and quince-perfumed medium-bodied wine. Aromatic and expressive, with wild herbs and lemon balm notes, this finishes with a tangy orange-peel finish and a twist of spice. Guardavalle, confusingly also known as greco di Ciro but unrelated to the greco commonly grown in Campania, is an indigenous grape from a small town of the same name on the Ionian side of Calabria.

Fresh, characterful Umbrian white with notes of citrus, white peach and wild herbs. Bright and textured, with lively acidity and a subtle savoury edge, it is a distinctive expression of the increasingly prized trebbiano Spoletino grape.

From the volcanic slopes of Vesuvius, this expressive falanghina combines peach, apple and citrus flavours with a refreshing saline twist. Textured yet vibrant, with a lingering mineral finish, it captures the distinctive character of this historic wine-growing region.