Back in February 2008, not long after we’d first arrived in Abruzzo to start Villasfor2, I began a weekly wine blog called Everyday Italian Wine, which featured bottles you could buy – around here at least – for under €10.

One year and 50-odd bottles later, Everyday Italian Wine morphed into Special Italian Wine, raising the standards to bottles costing over €10.

Now the time’s come to move on from Special Italian Wine to something brand new.

(To find out more – and discover David’s favourite red and white wine of the series – click on the main headline title above)

You’ve either got to be extraordinarily stupid or extraordinarily confident to sell your wine in a yellow bottle…

(Is the wine-maker’s confidence justified ? Or are our worst fears justified ? Only one way to find out…clock on the main headline title above…)

This wine is most definitely streets removed from the ‘pick the grapes; crush them; stick the juice in steel tanks for a few months; bottle it; sell it’ philosophy that produces the consistently enjoyable wine that those of us living in Abruzzo are lucky enough to drink every day.

In contrast, here’s a wine of astonishing depth, illustrating the extraordinary versatility of the Montepulciano grape – and the extraordinary skills too of the Monti cantina.

(Here’s a truly memorable Italian red wine. Click on the main headline title above to find out more…)