The Association of Italian Sommeliers to run sommelier school in Leeds

Rosso di Montalcino sticks to tradition

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Carluccio's summer of wine

Cellar trends are looking for Italian specialists to join a new team.

The mid-weight wines of the North-East were the stars, but overall Italy succeeded in providing a wide range of good food-friendly reds at decent prices

With screwcaps to the fore, the quality of the whites (particularly) and the reds here was amazing for the price. Rosé was another matter entirely

Huge wines and huge prices, this was a category that seemed to be more about ego than elegance

Over 1,500 wines can be boiled down to this: the hallowed Sommelier Wine Awards Gold List for 2011...

High quality came hand in hand with high prices, with the best examples combining a strong regional character with a more approachable modernity

With good value evident across the range and a variety of styles on show, there was something for every restaurant in these must-stock medal-winners

The Sommelier Wine Awards doesn’t give out trophies per category because we’re worried that tasters will feel under pressure to dispense extra awards in categories where they may not believe the wines are up to it. Instead, in keeping with the whole ethos of the competition, we leave the judgement up to the sommeliers…

Riesling is making itself at home in more and more countries, but where is it performing best? Clinton Cawood joins an eager sommelier panel for a top-notch tasting that pits Old World against New World and some acknowledged masters against hungry, young upstarts

An interesting and diverse category, Tuscany seemed to have everything from ‘affordable and local’ to ‘blinged up and international’

Some good, food-friendly wines in here but very few, surprisingly, that were amazing value for money