Bottle Service | The F&W Guide to Italian Wine
From classic benchmarks to extraordinary values, with wines from up and down the length of America’s favorite Mediterranean country, here’s our guide to every Italian bottle you’ll need for fall entertaining, the holidays, and beyond.

2023 Valle dell’Acate Il Frappato
Take a sip of this Frappato, a light-bodied, lively Sicilian red variety that has lately come back into fashion, and you’ll summon a childhood memory of raspberry hard candies (or and adult memory, if you still enjoy them). Valle dell’Acate is one of the benchmark wineries of Sicily’s souteastern Ragusa province.