IMPORTANT MESSAGE TO READERS BASED IN THE EU Please note: Due to new changes in VAT rules affecting goods shipped from the UK to the EU, as of 1^st July we have temporarily suspended shipping to the EU. If you would like to buy any single issue of Club Oenologique, you can do so, for the same price, directly from the site of our retailer partner, Newsstand. Apologies for any inconvenience.  We take two themes this issue: Italian wine and Scotch whisky. Few countries’ food-and-wine scenes stir the emotions like that of Italy, whose expansive wine provenance can make mastering the country’s full array of vinous virtues a rewarding but challenging task. We pick out the indigenous grape varieties to know, along with a selection of unusual wines to discover. We also ask whether Super-Tuscans are losing their sheen, explore the allure of Amarone, a stellar Brunello di Montalcino vintage, and the growing appeal of Nebbiolo – and we visit Piedmont’s most famous family, Gaja. Scotch whisky’s star continues to shine ever more brightly. Besides an exploration of whisky terroir and a tasting of distillery originals v independent bottlings, we tell the evocative story of the ‘lost’ distilleries of the 1980s and ’90s that are now being brought back to life in spectacular fashion.