wine

Vinitaly 2016 was the ideal occasion for presenting La Venaria Reale Riserva. At the end of the 19th century, brilliant pastry chef Giulio Cocchi, an alchemist of flavor, first produced this Vermouth di Torino.

Marco Simonit and Pierpaolo Sirch, grape pruners from Friuli, have made their mark in France. In Bordeaux, the great Chateaux saw their vines dying and called out for help.

Same wine, different years. Brunello di Montalcino demonstrates to be a an excellent choice in almost all its performances. We want to tell you about the ones we enjoyed the most.

A changeable and unstable wheather can highly determine the final taste of a wine. Our experts have tasted and examined 10 different Amarone from the same year and the results show a sgnificant difference between upper and lower slopes vineyards.

A spumante exported around the world and an important, powerful, elegant and concentrated red: an expression of the South, bot h are Aglianico, and both are from Paternoster, a family of entrepreneurs who personify a typical Italian story.

New energy on the road to sustainability, biodynamic inspiration, broad horizons, analysis beyond the banal. Gaia is leading Gaja into the future, together with her sister Rossana and brother Giovanni. She tells us about her passions and her formula for...

Even a super-well-known territory can provide fresh emotions. This vertical tasting of Badia a Coltibuono was extraordinary and moving. It demonstrates that there are terroirs that prevail over all else.

Around Assisi, towards Todi and into the bordering zones of Montefalco and Sagrantino, a journey along the wine roads of the Canticle. Excellent extra-virgin olive oils, wineries to visit, cured meats and cheeses to sample. And splendid hill towns, following...

The obsessing about comparisons to Champagne is finally over, and Italian metodo classico labels are enjoying a new era, one of transition. Stimulated by a generational shift, a reshaping of the identity of Italian territories is underway, particularly those best...

Lake Garda is unique, an immense expanse of water that shapes the ecosystem, climate and culture of a great section of Italy. The province of Brescia and its coast is the part that offers the appetite the most temptations, ranging...