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When I first start getting into wine I had the luxury of meeting Andrea Cecchi at a couple of local events here and was impressed by him and the wines that the Cecchi family have established in their 125+ history in the wine industry. In my search to always seek out wines and grapes on the lesser explored path, when I saw this label that screamed s...

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More world records in Italy: this time we are talking about wine, more specifically the world's largest barrel located in the Langhe region and certified by Guinness World Records. If you want to see it, you have to go to the Roberto Sarotto farm in Neviglie, in the province of Cuneo, in the heart of the Langhe. The dimensions of the barrel in ques...

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Our ancestors likely found grapes delicious but imagine when they realized that fermenting them would lead to an even better (and boozier) delight! For years, winemaking has been a central aspect of Italy's rich enogastronomic identity, but its exact origins were relatively unknown — that is, until a cave discovery in the south of Sicily changed ou...

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As the Italian wine industry is largely defined by indigenous varietals, the country’s most important wines are all about distinctiveness. Brunello di Montalcino from Tuscany is 100% Sangiovese, Barolo and Barbaresco are produced exclusively from Nebbiolo in Piedmont, while Soave, the famed Venetian white, is crafted primarily from Garganega.  Thes...

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Small is beautiful. Our journey with Rare Wines takes us through the rows of the smallest DOCG in Italy, Moscato di Scanzo, in the province of Bergamo. We are talking about a sweet red wine produced in very few bottles, in total there are about 50,000 divided among 30 producers, for a total area of 30 hectares. Among these, we have identified a gem...

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The Italian American Veterans Museum will host Festival del Vino from 1 to 5 p.m. on Sunday, September 18, at Casa Italia in Stone Park. A multifaceted celebration of Italian wine, the event is being held in cooperation with Binny’s Beverage Depot, Angelo Caputo’s Fresh Market and Onesti Entertainment. The festival will offer the opportunity to sam...

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Island of the Tuscan Archipelago that “looks” towards Bolgheri, Capraia, in the province of Livorno, as well as Bolgheri, is famous for its sea and severe landscape, and for having been for more than a century, between 1873 and 1986, an Agricultural Penal Colony, an ante litteram project for the recovery and reintegration of prisoners into society,...

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While Roberto Bolle dances in the background of the Colosseum in Times Square in New York, making millions of people who pass through it to dream of Italy (testimonial in the new Enit #Liveitalian campaign, ed), Italy itself welcomes foreign tourists with the Americans to drive the recovery of the sector. And since we usually “touch” the current t...

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One of the things I loved the most about growing up in Italy was going to sagre with my family. My Florentine babbo would wake my brother and me up on a Sunday morning and tell us to get dressed quickly, because we were about to pile into the car and, for example, drive over an hour to eat chestnuts at the Sagra delle Castagne up in Marradi, Tuscan...

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In the first five months of 2022, shipments of Italian wine abroad show no signs of decelerating, exceeding the 3 billion euro quota, up by 14.2% on the same period of 2021 and, even more interestingly, by 21.3 % on 2019, the last year before the pandemic started, as reported by the Istat data updated to May 2022, analyzed by WineNews. The unknown...

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