In April 09, we featured a bottle of Italy’s new superstar DOCG white, Fiano di Avellino. From one of Campania’s finest producers, this bottle cost €10.65 in a specialist wine shop.

Under the spotlight now is another bottle of DOCG Fiano di Avellino. Not from one of Campania’s finest producers, this bottle cost €4.49 in a cut-price supermarket.

Question is, are they comparable ?

(Only one way to find out whether the cheap wine is a delicious bargain – or will make you go blind. Click on the main headline title above…)

It took a while for Abruzzo bees to cotton-on to the fact that they were the key element in pollinating the flowers, but once they’d grasped this, we had the start of a promising crop.

(Nothing beats your own home-grown fruit’n'veg. Read about the first season in our Abruzzo veggie plot…)