Italian white wines that age well are real, and the year on the bottle is not an expiry date like the one on a carton of milk. Most of us still treat it that way. Finish it by Friday or regret it. Most everyday whites are made to be drunk…
Last month, a bottle of wine from 1945 set a world record in Singapore. Then, being a proper overachiever, the very next bottle broke the record again, minutes later. Both were the same wine, Château Mouton Rothschild 1945. The wine is legendary, but the label is the better story, so…
Serprino wine sounds like a cartoon sidekick, and it drinks like one: small, bubbly and hard to dislike. It also gets mistaken for its famous cousin all the time, which is a bit like calling someone by their sibling’s name. If you’ve seen it on a menu near Padova and…
Colli Euganei Rosso is an Italian wine made almost entirely of French grapes. Merlot, Cabernet and Carmenère moved to the volcanic hills near Padova in the 1800s, never left, and now everyone treats them like locals. It’s one of Veneto’s best surprises. So let’s look at what’s in the bottle,…
Look at the back of your next bottle and you might spot a small black-and-white square tucked between the alcohol percentage and the producer’s address. We already handed restaurant menus over to QR codes, so it’s tempting to roll your eyes at one more. But the wine bottle QR code…
Here’s something that should bother you a little. Italy has hundreds of wine grape varieties, and most of us rotate between about five. Meanwhile, the lesser-known Italian grapes sit on shelves wondering what they did wrong. Pinot Grigio gets the supermarket aisle, Prosecco gets the party, and a poor Timorasso…
Picture a group of professional cyclists racing through the hills of northern Italy. Legs burning, spectators cheering, vineyards quietly minding their own business. Then, at the finish line, there’s a bottle of Asti sparkling wine. Not a sports drink. Not an energy gel. Actual Italian wine. Before anyone imagines a…
Imagine three countries entering a wine competition. Italy arrives carrying the most bottles. France walks in wearing a designer suit, looking very expensive. Spain turns up with a harvest estimate that suddenly puts it ahead of France. The Spain vs France wine production race is the headline of the week,…
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