The pick of the new releases from Tuscany and all points south tasted by Walter recently. Above, Casavecchia grapes cultivated by Alois in Campania (image courtesy Vini Alois). See also Italian new releases late 2024 – the north.
Tuscany
In Tuscany the biggest surprise of the year came from Colline Albelle, a recent outfit in Riparbella run by Julian Reneaud, a French winemaker and agronomist, who in an email to me wrote that after his studies he did two ‘world tours’ following harvests ‘like most winemakers do when their families don’t make wine’. He travelled without taking planes, ‘but...