Lazio

Lazio wines are probably the hardest working wines in Italy, for it's Lazio that has the desire, the will and the soil to be the next break out region. Lazio is generally overlooked for red wine, so the county that borders both Tuscany and Campania has always been doomed to producing cheapy whites for the millions in the capital.<BR>

Poor whites have taken up so much production and marketing time in Lazio that they had forsaken their wonderful soil, following the limiting DOC classifications, (that have forced Lazio into this white wine hell) and simply supplying Rome.<BR>

Times are a changing! Falesco have moved in and old guard producers have recruited fresh blood from France, Spain and California to revamp their vineyards and soup up their marketing efforts even bringing in foreign vines too. Now you can not just buy red wine from Lazio, you can buy great red wine, and not just Cabs, Merlots and Syrahs but even excellent blended wines AND the most happy news of all? They lack the price tags of Tuscanys ITG's.