Umbria wine has a red that shows up to dinner and takes over the conversation. Sagrantino has famously firm tannins, and it comes from a region that often sits in Tuscany’s shadow. But Umbria is not about one loud red. It also has an easygoing white, a whole DOCG built…
Friuli is the kind of wine region that loses a name dispute to Hungary, makes white wines that drink like reds, and sits so close to Slovenia that some of its hills practically wave across the border. And most of us walk straight past it to grab a Pinot Grigio….
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…
A woman just won Winegrower of the Year in Corriere della Sera’s Italian wine guide. Her name is Chiara Lungarotti, and her family’s story starts decades before the trophy, with another woman, a museum, and a small town betting on wine tourism before it was a thing. In 1974, Maria…
Vinitaly, Italy’s biggest wine fair, lives in Verona every April, but it also travels. On 26 and 27 October 2026, Vinitaly USA set up on a pier in New York, after a run in Chicago. About 300 Italian producers came along, with around 2,500 wines to pour. Why take an…
There’s a special kind of confidence in arriving at a winery gate at 1:15 pm, glass-ready and smiling, and finding the whole estate has gone to lunch. Here in Italy, lunch is not negotiable. If you want to buy wine directly from Italian wineries, that’s lesson one. Lesson two is…
Picture one of those small Italian wineries from the postcards. Golden hillside, stone cellar, a grandfather squinting at the sky like he’s negotiating with it. Lovely, right? Now picture the part nobody photographs: a laptop, a tax form and a family trying to work out who is going to buy…
You know that shop sign that says “up to 70% off”? Everyone walks in picturing the leather jacket at 70% off, and everyone walks out with a scarf at 12%. Funding headlines are the same trick in a nicer suit. When Italy announced in 2026 that it could cover up…
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