All these years later, the “Goodfellas” spirit lives on — in a lineup of Italian wines as big, bold, and complex as the movie ...

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 ...

Three red wines pair with both hearty main courses and desserts—including those typical of the regions of Alentejo, Bolgheri ...

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 ...

Mention Mendocino wine these days, and most aficionados will think of pinot noir. That’s hardly surprising: Pinot noir still is hot in the wine world, and Mendocino’s chilly Anderson Valley produces ...

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 ...

Got the hammock strung up? Check. A chilled bottle of Prosecco or Vermentino? Check. Notebook handy? Pen or pencil? Check. Time to do some studying. Our textbook: “Native Wine Grapes of Italy” by Ian ...

2005-05-05 04:00:00 PDT Rome-- Wine lovers have long doted on Brunellos, Barolos and the wines of Tuscany and Piedmont in general. But the wines of Campania have largely been dismissed. Even though ...

“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 ...

It took me a while to figure out why sangiovese is the most-planted red grape in Italy. At 155,000 acres of vine, it accounts for about 8 percent of all wine grapes planted there. And this in a ...

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 ...