The Super Tuscan movement began quite innocently when Marchese Mario Incisa della Roccheta and his wife moved to coastal Tuscany in the 1940s and planted Cabernet Sauvignon vines that he had brought ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Cathrine Todd is a New York City-based writer who focuses on wine. An industrial entrepreneur named Giuseppe Castiglioni was a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Since the emergence of the first Super Tuscans in the late 1970s, the plot line has been that they are made with “foreign” grapes ...

There are many examples in the history of wine when the impulses of winemakers have revolutionized the industry. We think of the pioneers who grew vines on California mountainsides where no one feared ...

Standing next to me in the wine section of the town grocery, known as the Cooperativa, in the ancient village of Castellina in Chianti, Tuscany, was a very large man wearing a Green Bay Packers jersey ...

After the past few weeks of “Chianti Chat,” it seems pretty apparent that a wine region can benefit from a central hub of regulations. From its very humble beginnings, Chianti has gone from a basket ...

This story is from an installment of The Oeno Files, our weekly insider newsletter to the world of fine wine. Sign up here. Two of the best and most well-known white Super Tuscans, Ornellaia Bianco ...

This column usually recommends excellent wines of everyday value. But with wine, as in most things, the notion of a bargain is relative. So on this, the fourth anniversary of Vino Veritas, please ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Cathrine Todd is a New York City-based writer who focuses on wine. The idea of having a “second wine” for a producer’s top wine ...

THE first day of autumn is less than two weeks away; soon suppers will get heartier, and wines will follow suit. Cooler temperatures make the evening safe again for a lighter red. Tuscan rossos fit ...

Thierry Pradines is lohud.com's resident wine expert. For 12 weeks, he has been choosing one wine each week that you should add to your own personal cellar this year. We're up to Week 9 and it's a big ...

Tuscany is where olive trees, sweetly scented cypress tress and a plethora of vines populate the hillsides, where the air is magnificent and the light brilliantly vivid, a reminder that these hills ...