Best for the wine makers

In my mind Italy is awash with vineyards in stunning locations. You’ve got your rows on the hilltops and your neat fields in valleys amongst the russets and orange colours Italy is famous for. They also take their wine seriously and have done for generations so you can listen to people speak with passion about what they create. There are lots of farmer, growers for whom the wine itself is better reward than international renown and they drink it (an will share it with you) accordingly (and they know a thing or two about food as well.). Piedmont has to be one of the best looking of an excellent bunch, Tuscany is a bit too perfect, but Piedmont is the real thing, oceans on undulating vines, heavy with dusty black grapes and naked earth between.