Under The Sun

Makers embracing local grapes and conditions are breathing new life into southern Italy’s wine scene.

- Max Allen

Everything’s different in the south. The light is more intense, the sky more vivid-blue, the flavours bolder in your glass and on your plate. Yes, technically we’re still in Italy. But travel through the regions of the boot’s ankle, heel and toe – Campania, Basilicata, Puglia, Calabria – and through the island of Sicily, and sometimes you feel you could be in Africa. Or Australia. Or on the Moon.