A Taste of Southern Italy Mixed Case

Fiano has a lovely full apricot and peach style, with no oak, but plenty of refreshing, almost bitter citrus-pith notes that make it very refreshing yet not sharp. Perfect with creamy pasta dishes or roasted vegetable salads.

The guardavalle white grape, native to Calabria in the toe of Italy, has produced a wonderfully individual, salted-apple and quince-perfumed medium-weighted wine with a mineral lick and a twist of spice on the finish.

Made from organically cultivated grapes on a beautiful hillside vineyard overlooking the sea in the toe of Italy, this is a delightful peach, lemon and oyster-shell-scented white wine with a clean, dry finish. Seafood pasta would be perfect.

Made along the heel of Italy in sea-cooled but sunny Puglia, this old-vine negromaro is generous and soft, with blackcurrant and plum flavours. There's a little mocha and a sweeter finish point , with well judged ageing in large old oak barrels really enhancing the overall quality.

This rich, full-bodied, blackberry and bramble-scented primitivo benefits from ageing in large wooden botti and in bottle, which has softened the structure and allowed a little spice to develop.

Aglianico is arguably southern Italy's finest red grape, and this wine really exemplifies that. Full-bodied with damson and Black Forest flavours, mineral-like acidity, and a touch of balancing oak spice with leather characters on the finish.