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While traveling through Italy last month, Prosecco was everywhere - by the glass or as a spritz - and usually the sparkling wine of choice f...

Bonagiunta da Lucca; e quella faccia | Bonagiunta from Lucca; and that face di là da lui più che l'altre trapunta | beyond him more embo...

Throughout Puglia we had seen bottles of Amaro Salento Classico in various grocery stores and restaurants and by chance we were passing near...

Who enjoys Fernet-Branca? We were able to tour their Milano facility and even though Italian was spoken, learned plenty. Fernet-Branca's...

On April 30th, Gambero Rosso , Italy's premier food and wine media group, returned to Washington DC celebrating the Vini D’Italia 2025 ...

"Beginning with the Greeks, who arrived on the eastern part of Sicily in the 8th century BCE, the idea of methodical grapegrowing pract...

The Gavi or Cortese di Gavi DOCG is an appellation covering still and sparkling white wines produced from the indigenous Cortese grape grown...

Cerasuolo (chair-ah-swolo) translates loosely to "cherry-colored” in Italian and refers to Italian rosés in general. However the Abruz...

Abruzzo  is a naturalist's dream "as half of the region's territory is protected through national parks and nature reserves, mo...

Abruzzo is a naturalist's dream "as half of the region's territory is protected through national parks and nature reserves, mo...

We are sticking with Amaro in our  Herbal Liqueur series with the Amaro Montenegro 1885 . As the name suggests, this liqueur was launched i...

Amaro translates to “bitter” in Italian, but the category of bittersweet herbaceous liqueurs is far from one-note. It spans a range of flavo...

Lombardy is one of Italy's largest and most populous regions and is located in the north-central part of the country. It consists of fiv...

“…one morning in September, before the harvest, I and others went to Arquata del Tronto, in the hamlet of Pescara, where they had pointed ou...

Brachetto is a black-skinned Italian wine grape grown in the Piedmont region of northwest Italy. The grape specifically is suited for the so...

Umbria, in central Italy, is a region of lush rolling hills, hilltop villages and iconic, historic towns. The latter are exemplified by Orvi...