Back in the early 1990s I came across a newspaper review of a wine from Lazio, the Central Italian province surrounding Rome. The wine was a 100% Merlot. It was produced by a house called Falesco near the provincial town of Viterbo, fifty miles north of the capital. The reviewer praised it, though cautiously.
I had moved to Rome only recently, and was curious to know what a good local red tasted like. Then as now, the most prized wines were from Piedmont and Tuscany. Information about Lazi....
The Merry Drinker
