Italy has more native grape varieties under commercial cultivation than any other country on earth — somewhere between three hundred and five hundred, depending on how you count them — and produces wine in every one of its twenty regions. Barolo is the name most people know, but the Italian wine map includes Etna Rosso from volcanic basalt, Vermentino from Sardinian granite, Lagrein from the Trentino valleys, Greco di Tufo from the Campanian hills, and a hundred other combinations of place and variety that the international wine market is only beginning to pay proper attention to.The wine writing in this section is specific rather than comprehensive: deep pieces on single appellations, producer profiles, vintage assessments, and the kind of food-pairing context that makes a wine make more sense at the table. The aim is to give you the vocabulary and the reference points to drink Italian wine with the same informed pleasure the Italians do.
A family property south-east of Montalcino, shaped by eight decades of viticulture, the constant pull of sea winds, and a dedication to Brunello that runs…
From a 1703 ledger entry in Santo Stefano Belbo to the cru vineyards of Barolo and Barbaresco, Poderi Colla represents one of Italy’s most consequential…
A family estate on Sicily’s south-central coast turns centuries of agricultural history into some of the island’s most compelling DOC wines, olive oils, and artisan…
The Collio produces white wines of exceptional character from a landscape that the border divides but does not separate. A guide to the Ponca soil,…
The Lambrusco that shaped its international reputation is not the Lambrusco worth drinking today. An introduction to the dry, serious version from Modena and Reggio…
For decades Ciru00f2 was the wine Calabria exported without pride. The story of how Gaglioppo is reclaiming its appellation — and why the wines are…
Sardinia's most planted red grape thrives in granite and heat, on old vines in a landscape where centenarian growers are neither surprising nor rare. An…
A wine farm, an agriturismo, and a gateway to one of Italy’s most storied mountain regions — La Source in Saint-Pierre is a carefully constructed…
Vermentino is the definitive white wine of the Italian coast -- saline, aromatic, and calibrated to the seafood of Sardinia, Liguria, and Tuscany.
Brunello di Montalcino -- 100% Sangiovese from the hills south of Siena -- is one of Italy greatest reds, built to age for decades and…