Welcome to our 2025 Italy guide

This annual guide is one of the highlights of my year as Italy Regional Editor, and it's a great feeling to see the fruition of all our hard work in print.

- By James Button, Decanter Regional Editor for Italy

It's an impossible task to encapsulate everything happening in this dynamic country in anything less than a book of many hundreds of pages, but I think we've covered a tremendous amount of ground given the space constraints.

Start with Uncorked (see p8) for a few bitesize details about what is happening in Italy's world of wine, and then turn to our two collaborative efforts: a vox pop on star food pairings to go with Italian wine styles (p46) and our Tuscany insiders' guide