A little background. In February 2008 I began a series of weekly wine blogs called David’s Everyday Italian Wine, featuring wines costing under €10 a bottle.

A year and some 50 bottles of everyday Italian wine later, this series had pretty much run its natural course and morphed into the monthly David’s Special Italian Wine, raising the price bar to wines costing over €10 a bottle.

(Time to review the year’s best wines. Check out these delicious bottles by clocking on the main headline title above…)

I came across this little widget that allows you to run simple polls and questionnaires on your website or blog.

And in a moment of idle curiosity, I thought it’d be fun to run a poll to see what everyone’s favourite Italian food was.

(Thirty-odd ‘favourite Italian foods’ later, it was all starting to get a little out-of-hand. Click on the headline title above to find out more !)

Pecorino ‘Unico’ IGT. 2008. Tenuta Ulisse

Pecorino is the new (rapidly) rising star of Abruzzo wine and this offering from Tenuta Ulisse is the very best you can get your hands on.

And that’s not a subjective judgement either. This Pecorino – the 2008 vintage – was voted ‘Best Italian White Wine’ at 2009’s prestigious London International Wine Challenge, also picking up a gold medal for ‘Best Pecorino’ almost as an afterthought.

(A delicious start to the wine-tasting year. Find out more by clicking on the main headline title above…)