Wine to try
2003 Villa La Selva Vigna del Papa Vin Santo (A$64/500ml) Vin santo is regularly offered at the end of a meal at any decent trattoria, cafe or ristorante in Italy. It’s made with late-picked white grapes, usually trebbiano and/or malvasia, which are then air-dried on cane baskets, fermented, but arrested to retain some residual sweetness, before being barrel-aged in older casks for at least three years. This tames the sweetness and gives a sherry-like character to the finished wine. Often enjoyed with coffee and biscotti, vin santo is perfectly at home with crostata, especially the rhubarb and raspberry version suggested here.