Welcome to this week's 'Wine of the Week' from Surf4Wine: Chianti Riserva, Cantine Leonardo da Vinci 2004

Our wine of the week usually goes up first thing on Monday morning, but this week Christmas arrived in the form of a flurry of orders with ASAP all over them, meaning a case of all hands to the pumps. Net result, this weeks WoW is a tad late! To make up for our tardiness in getting our latest WoW up onto the site we have a cracking deal on this modern classic from Tuscany.

Normally our Wine of the Week recommendations have a £1 per bottle discount. However, for this week only the Chianti Riserva, Cantine Leonardo da Vinci 2004 is available with a £1.50 per bottle discount - now even more of a reason to go 'Wow!' Was £11.49 now £9.99.

I wanted to pick something Italian for this week's WoW as we've been doing a lot of Italian-inspired cooking at home (and, naturally, Italian-inspired drinking!) in the last couple of weeks - look out for some food and wine pairings on the blog soon. The Chianti Riserva '04 from Cantine Leonardo was one of our favourites, drunk over supper with friends a couple of weekends ago. It's a lovely food-friendly wine with a rich, supple, full-bodied style, a nice twist of dry tannins to give the wine 'grip' and a lick of acidity (without being harsh like some Chiantis you will find) that makes it a perfect foil to cut through the richness of hearty Autumn fare.

So get out those Italian cookery books, nip out and buy some fresh pasta and save yourself a few £'s on the wine to go with it.