Trebbiano may not have a place in the spotlight quite like Pinot Gris or Vermentino but it deserves a place on your table. It ...

Victor Hazan once told me, “The duty of wine is to be red,” while sipping some of the same. Hazan, author of “Italian Wine,” is famously known as the husband (and oft translator) of Marcella Hazan, ...

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 ...

From structured white wines to fruit-forward and earthy red wines, the majority of these Italian varieties are as food ...

For California wine enthusiasts, the Columbus Day weekend used to mean a big San Francisco tasting focused on wines made from Italian grape varieties grown in the United States. That went away more ...

Phil Masturzo gives a preview of the wines he will be pouring at his Feast of the 7 Delicious event on Dec. 4 in Fairlawn.

Italian immigrants were instrumental in founding the California wine industry, yet when winemakers sought to upgrade the image of their wines in the mid-20th century, they followed the then-current ...

One thousand feet above Washington's Columbia Valley, the highest reaches of dusty Snipes Mountain lie beneath river stones, vineyards staked incongrously in a mix of arid earth and the water-rounded ...

“Italy is the most complex wine-growing region in the world,” says Brian Larky, founder of Dalla Terra, an importer of Italian wines. “In California, you’ve got — what? — five, eight, 10 major growing ...

Some newsworthy tidbits caught my eye this week. Tie them together, and they lead us down a wine trail worth following. On the Web site www.winejudging.com,I found posted the results of one of the ...