Italy is home to hundreds of different grape varieties spread out over 20 wine regions, yet for a long time, it was the same familiar ones that tended to take up the most space on retail shelves ...

Discover Italy's finest wines in ... it comes to exploring Lombardy's wine areas. Here are four of the best routes to drive, hike or bike through the region, stopping at family-run cantines ...

“Collio”—a derivation of the Italian word for “hill”—was ... Then she pulled out a map of the Collio wine district and traced the route to Venica in the village of Dolegna.

David Giuliano, the Italian portfolio manager for New York’s Regal Wine Imports, says, “In the Langhe region, where you find the Nebbiolo grape, Barbera will always get the second-quality ...

One man’s vino is another woman’s wein. In Alto Adige, the Italian wine region also known as Sudtirol by the locals who drink “wein,” multicultural bilingualism comes with the territory.

Friuli—further north than both these regions—produces scintillating ... Pair with sausage risotto, roasted spare ribs in red wine sauce or a dessert of Italian carrot cake.

Home to the wine regions of Roero, Gavi, Langhe and Unesco-listed Monferrato, this is the region of Italy for you if you enjoy wine tasting, outstanding local food and sunset walks among grape vines.

Below are listed various Italian wines sampled during past months. Many were tasted at the recent Wine Paris / Vinexpo trade show. They represent a diverse range of Italian terrain, and are all of ...

Away from the coast, though, there’s another side to this southern Italian region: a remote hinterland ... also a white wine grape, is used in the prestigious appellation of Fiano di Avellino.

Yet unlike France’s Champagne or Italy’s own Tuscany, the Franciacorta region is, in wine years, young; the first bottle of sparkler was corked in 1961. Perhaps because of its relative new-kid ...