There is something distinctly Italian about sangiovese. Maybe not so surprising as it is the most planted grape variety in Italy. Widely present in Tuscany, where we find it in Chianti, Chianti ...

Last week, I wrote about three Sicilian red wines made with the same wine grape – nero d’avola. This week, I thought we would stay in Italy and learn more about even more popular red wine grape – ...

Nine wines made the 2024 San Francisco International Wine Competition’s (SFIWC) final round for best Italian varietal wines. The SFIWC is one of the most prestigious wine competitions in the world, ...

Italy, the world’s largest wine-producing country, is home to a plethora of grape varieties. The Italian government has authorized more than 350 grape varieties for commercial grape production out of ...

Fifty years ago, Tuscany meant one thing to wine enthusiasts — chianti. It was king to American wine consumers, largely because the straw-covered fiasco was an attractive novelty. These round jugs ...

Avignonesi Rosso di Montepulciano DOC 2014 — Looking at this wine and tasting present two different experiences. In the glass, the wine is light in color, clear enough to read the type on this page ...

For reasons I can’t fathom, I often seek familiar Italian-style dishes — especially the tomato sauce kind — in early autumn. Just for the sake of congruence, I look to Italian wines for accompaniment: ...