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 ...

There are more than 350 white grape varieties officially recorded in Italy — and if you count those beyond the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry’s list, that number climbs to at least 500. Yet most ...

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 ...

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 – ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...