One of America’s foremost experts in Italian wines offers tips for how to discover bottles from your next favorite Italian wine region. When it comes to Italian wine, there are few people who know ...
Italy is an endless well of great wines. There are so many fine options overflowing from the Mediterranean nation finding the right one, even in the dead of winter, is no issue. Provided, of course, ...
Due to their commitment to terroir-driven, sustainable wine, premium Italian wines are poised to weather this difficult wine climate. Many of today’s wine industry headlines predict doom and gloom for ...
Renowned for its bold red wines like Barolo and Brunello, it might come as a surprise that drinkers are now turning to Northern Italy for light, bright, chillable reds like Frappatto and Dolcetto. The ...
Last week on “Wine Press,” California chardonnays heated things up, just in time for summer. The week before, cabernet sauvignon threw its weight around and showed why it’s the most popular red wine ...
Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Cathrine Todd is a New York City-based writer who focuses on wine. Crumbling brick tenement apartment buildings housing poor ...
For reasons I can’t fathom, I often seek familiar Italian-style dishes — especially the tomato sauce kind — in early autumn. Just for the sake of congruence, I look to Italian wines for accompaniment: ...
Just tell the truth, already: you are totally freaked out by Italian wine. By “freaked out”, we mean shaking like a leaf. Shivering in your shorts. Just plain scurrred. Ask a wine retailer which ...
For any tomato-based sauce, Alessandro Zanieri, the head Italian chef at Marchesi Frescobaldi, recommends a bottle of Chianti. “On the palate, this wine is well-balanced, harmonious, fresh, fruity, ...
A great friend of mine and I were recently talking about the problem with wine. For the second year in a row, wine sales nationwide were down last year compared to the year before, according to an ...