Italy is not most people’s first port of call for Chardonnay, nor perhaps are mountain regions, but up in the Alpine northeast of Italy, in the predominantly white-wine region of Alto Adige/Süd Tirol, Chardonnay vineyards are second only to Pinot Grigio and the wines produced have a captivating purity and freshness.

This is a cracking example of Dolcetto d'Alba, a food-friendly Italian red wine

This is proper orange wine – bone dry, firmly structured, crisp, and full of juicy apricot and orange marmalade fruit

This buoyantly fruity, fresh, dry north Italian red wine has a spring in its step and is a good choice for Valentine's Day

If Italian Pinot Grigio is the sort of white wine you normally pass by, stay with me because there's another kind: Pinot Grigio with flavour

This versatile, festive Italian red wine can be drunk this Christmas or any time over the next five years

This alluring, richly textured, complex and very individual dry wine was inspired by the way white wines were made in the past

Tasting notes with food pairings for seven notable wines from two estates in Piedmont and one in Tuscany

Summer was late coming this year and so is my round-up rosés, but here it is, new wines and new vintages of old favourites, blazing a trail

A great value, food-friendly Chianti Classico from an organic estate in the heart of the region

When I want an easygoing, inexpensive Italian red wine, I'll go for this Remastered Sangiovese from Romagna

To celebrate the international release of the Poggio di Sotto’s 2019 Brunello, winemaker Leonardo Berti hosted a vertical tasting in London

£12.50, Stone,Vine & Sun If you think of Soave as, at best, an inoffensive dry white wine that you can safely ignore except when the only...

Vineyards protected by cold northern winds at Tenuta San Leonardo, Italy's answer to elegant, first-growth Bordeaux When I chose the 14...

£19.99, Waitrose This very pretty, fruit-forward, young Chianti Classico is named after Ardalico, a character in the epic novel Orlando...

£16.99–£23.70, Roberts & Speight, Fareham Wine Cellar, Tannico UK, Vinvm, Village Wines, York Wines, Wine Utopia I could happily drink...

£14.75, Vintage Roots If you’re in the business of writing about or selling wine, it's easy to think that orange wine is now so...

£8.99 (on current offer), Waitrose There are quite a lot of red wines that you can drink lightly chilled if you want to and there's a...

Update, August 3 I've just added two more southern French rosés: Alaina, which is new to me, although its producer, Laurent Miquel,...

£12.99, House of Townend You need to let this lithe, young, north Italian white open up in your glass to enjoy it at its best, so pour it...