The Volcanic Wines of Italy
What sets apart some of the most exhilarating Italian wines today? New benchmarks for complexity and longevity have one thing in common:...
Italy’s Amphora Wines: Back to the Future
Searching for the best way to make pure, terroir-driven wines, a few brave producers in Italy have traded in their temperature-controlled...
Discover Italy’s Old Vine Wines
You’ve no doubt seen the term “old vines” on many wine labels (think Old Vine Zinfandel) but in Italy, the term takes on a whole...
The Great Debate: To Decant or Not?
Forget about arguments for or against trendy topics like Natural Wines and the existence of terroir, because nothing causes more debate...
Hot Italian Wines: Is 15% abv the New 14%?
No one can deny that Italian wine has benefitted from a great string of very good and outstanding vintages over the last fifteen years....
Italy’s long-lived whites
It’s generally assumed that Italian white wines are cheerful and made to be consumed during the first year after the harvest. And while...
Italy and the American palate: debunking the myth
Wine drinkers in the United States have long been pigeonholed as obsessed with dark, oaky, powerful wines, and this perceived preference...
Modest maestros
From the shadows of Italy’s famous consultant winemakers, who drove the country into the spotlight with cult bottlings from international...
Meet the mavericks
They’re wild, they’re wacky, they have unconventional ideas – and they make some of Italy’s finest reds and whites....
US love affair with Italy
Why the US can’t get enough of Italian wine. Food and wine have always been important for Italian Americans, and today many star US...
Trend vs. Tradition. Italian wine styles under siege
A modern-day war is being waged in Italy’s most renowned and treasured wine regions. Of course there are no real battlefields and no...