Victor Hazan once told me, “The duty of wine is to be red,” while sipping some of the same. Hazan, author of “Italian Wine,” is famously known as the husband (and oft translator) of Marcella Hazan, ...

Gear up for Milano Cortina and superb alpine sports with a taste of la dolce vita, says Sam Wylie-Harris.

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 ...

Italy is the only country in the world with viticulture in all its regions, extending from the damp sea coast to the foot of the Apennine Mountains, the Italian Alps and the Dolomites. Vines grow from ...

“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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

There is something distinctly Italian about sangiovese. Maybe not so surprising as it is the most planted grape variety in Italy. Widely present in Tuscany, where we find it in Chianti, Chianti ...

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 ...