Italy is the only country in the world with viticulture in all its regions, extending from the damp sea coast to the foot of the Apennine Mountains, the Italian Alps and the Dolomites. Vines grow from ...

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Trying to squeeze everything about Italian wine into one column is impossible. Even so, I’m going to try to do just that this week. This foolhardy venture was inspired by a recent, ambitious ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. If you’ve tasted the Italian grape Trebbiano recently, it has likely been as the base for authentic balsamic vinegar or a glass of ...

WINE ENTHUSIASTS touring Italy during the fall harvest who aren’t content to just sip can opt to snip and crush. Wine tourism, which includes taking part in the production process, has been rising in ...

Think of Emilia-Romagna's hyphen as a key to its wines. As the northwest part of this northern-Italian region, Emila prizes its lambruschi, a group of unrelated red-wine grapes with very different ...

What makes a wine French, or American or Spanish? Attributing national characteristics is a murky business, with one significant exception. Regardless of where they come from, the red wines of Italy ...

Carignan was once, many years ago, the most grown grape in France. However, its name did not appear on the labels because the wines were simple and inexpensive, and no one cared from which grape the ...