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Starting your Italian wine journey? Try these three regions

Because you, like us, are craving Italian this month, you're probably going to want some wine to go with those recipes you try.

Italy is home to hundreds of grape varieties, and becoming intimately familiar with all of them would require you to devote most of your time and energy to that project from here on out. Good thing you don't need to know about all of them.

If the overwhelming breadth of Italian wines makes your forehead throb and causes you to shut down and decide against deciding - the laundry detergent aisle in a supermarket has the same effect on me -

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