There’s an Italian sparkling wine that, by law, has to sit on its own spent yeast for a minimum of 30 months. Only then is anyone allowed to sell it. That’s two and a half years spent quietly getting better, in cellars in Piedmont, before a single bottle reaches a…
Sarah Jessica Parker’s Wine Has 70 Gold Medals and One Very Weird Bottle This summer, Sarah Jessica Parker released a wine infused with jalapeño flavor. The idea came from a TikTok trend. People were dropping fresh jalapeño slices into their glass of white wine for a spicy kick. Someone at…
The wine your uncle brings to Thanksgiving because it’s cheap and nobody will complain is fermented and aged in a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Actual underground cathedrals, carved into rock, holding bottles at a constant twelve degrees. I’m not exaggerating for effect. It’s called that officially. Cathedrals. And for a…
At one point in the 1970s, Soave outsold Chianti in the United States. Not a niche category win. The actual best-selling Italian wine in the country, red or white, full stop. Ask most people about Soave today and you’ll get a shrug. Or a memory of a thin, forgettable white…
Prosecco has a reputation problem. Outside Italy, it behaves like the wine you bring out when something good happens—birthdays, promotions, “we survived the week” moments. It gets poured like an announcement. In Veneto, nobody announces it. It just shows up. On tables. In bars. Between conversations that were not scheduled…
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