When you’re weary of wine (it happens), reach for the fabulous dry grape soda of Emilia, otherwise known as real lambrusco. Vittorio Graziano sets to work on this by destemming... read more →
Massimiliano Croci is keen on bringing respect to his little-known area of Emilia. A sip of any of his wines, fizz or dry, amber, red or rosato will prove it.... read more →
Gutturnio is a DOC that came into being only in 2010. By law, the wine must be a blend of barbera and croatina, and it can be fizzy or still.... read more →
Taurasi is a DOCG in Avellino, not too far from Naples. Luigi Tecce took over his family’s estate when his father died in 1997. He learned winemaking hit and miss.... read more →
There are so few authentic wines from Umbria that the ones that do exist should be noted. Noted! This one had a six-day fermentation. Then into cement it went. The... read more →
Oh, you want to know what I drank with the blood orange and burrata salad I made the other night? This. Always a delight. A joy and a crowd pleaser.... read more →
Before Elisabetta Foradori took over the family winery, no one even considered teroldego’s greatness. But when you get down with her bottles, you'll feel its breeding express itself through her... read more →
German transplant Christoph Fischer makes a true and beautiful field blend from an old plot of grapes planted in alberello—bush-vine style—something quite rare for the ritzy Maremma. You’ll find a... read more →
Federico Orsi works just outside of Bologna in the Colli, on beautiful rolling hills. He’s on limestone instead of the silt you find further west, making still and referemented wines.... read more →
Elio Sandri has beautiful vineyards and in the nubile spring, as I saw them last year, they are filled with daisies. This is a quiet, modest house and the grapes,... read more →