Novità Sangiovese 2025
£8.75
The wine
Ripe Sangiovese grapes deliver great flavour in the glass. Smooth, with juicy redcurrant and raspberry fruit leading to a fresh finish. An honest everyday red from the heartland of Emilia-Romagna.
Sangiovese is Italy's most planted red grape and the backbone of Chianti and Brunello, but it grows across the centre of the country in far humbler forms too. On the Emilia-Romagna plain it gives a lighter, softer wine than the Tuscan hills produce, made unoaked for early drinking.
The producer
Novità
View all Novità winesNovita is a range of everyday Italian varietals drawn from the Veneto and Emilia-Romagna, the two regions that between them supply a great deal of what the world drinks as Italian wine.
That is not a criticism. The Po valley and the Veneto plain have deep alluvial soils, reliable sunshine and a long growing season, and they produce enormous quantities of clean, well-made wine at prices no hillside vineyard could match. Pinot Grigio, Trebbiano and Sangiovese are the staples, made in stainless steel, bottled young and intended to be opened without ceremony.
Italy has more registered grape varieties than any country on earth, somewhere above five hundred, and more land under vine than all but a couple. Wines like these are the base of that pyramid, and there is no shame in it. The name means novelty or something new, and these are wines for a Tuesday rather than an occasion.






