The other Sangiovese is white
Italy has the greatest range of grape varieties in the world: 182 types of table grapes and more than 545 that can be used for winemaking. Many of the...
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Attack of the Phylloxera
No history of wine and vines can possibly omit the story of phylloxera. Over the years, on my many travels among vineyards, time and again I’ve...
The Legend of the Black Rooster
June 1988. The green Volkswagen Beetle winds through the Chianti with deliberate slowness, on the legendary route 222. My parents in front, me in the ...
Ice in the vines
April is always a difficult month for winemakers. It’s a period when they walk on a knife-edge between the excitement of seeing the buds push th...
La vie en rose
What kind of wine has dominated in recent years? What type has been most fashionable? There’s not an atom of doubt: it’s rosé. Ros...
Vermentino: the savor of the sea.
No one quite knows where Vermentino originally came from. The most widely held theory maintains that the grape hails from Spain, from where it spread ...
Cabernet Sauvignon, the grape of two worlds
Cabernet Sauvignon is the most widely cultivated grape in the world. To give you some idea of its popularity, the famous journalist and wine critic Ja...
Sangiovese: history and legend
One of the most important grape varieties of Italy, the word Sangiovese embodies some of the complexity – or versatility, perhaps – in a c...
If wine can be melodramatic
Versa vino, eccellente Marzemino! The wine that is sung more than any other is Marzemino, thanks to its mention in Mozart’s Don Giovanni. Accord...
Rosatello: the color of the Dolce Vita
There are some wines that are older than just about all of us. Iconic wines, wines that symbolize the most significant moments of an epoch, and which...
Prosecco Rosè: an overnight success
In his Naturalis Historia, the Roman writer and naturalist Pliny the Elder (23–79 AD) mentioned the quality, almost as an elixir for a long life...
Three Glasses for Riserva Ducale 2017
When in late nineteenth-century farming Tuscany, wine was simply a source of nourishment, white and red grapes together, foot pressed, energy for a da...
Aqua di Venus, pink Tuscany
It might be the color, the shade of seduction. Or the graceful filigree aromas. Or the flavors, simultaneously bold and gentle. Or it could be all of ...
Aperitivo: a modern ritual with an ancient flavour
So widespread that it’s the subject of arguments and the set-up of jokes, so universal that it ignores borders, and so enticing that it brings p...
History of a successful flask
2020 is a significant year for one of Ruffino's most significant wines. The Ruffino flask is back holding the local red, Chianti Rufina DOCG: a proud ...
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