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 ...

Last week, I wrote about three Sicilian red wines made with the same wine grape – nero d’avola. This week, I thought we would stay in Italy and learn more about even more popular red wine grape – ...

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If pasta is the movie, then Sangiovese is the soundtrack. I could eat spaghetti without it, but why would I? That’s like watching a Fellini film on mute when Nino Rota’s score is what illuminates it, ...

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This wine, by Hilmy Cellars, is called Saignée of Sangiovese, named for its production method. Saignée is a by-product of red winemaking. During the fermentation of a red wine, about ten percent of ...

An old cow farm about a mile outside of downtown Healdsburg had a hillside many thought was “unplantable.” But that didn’t stop the Orsi family from purchasing the property in 1990 and giving their ...

Sangiovese is Italy’s numero uno grape. Forget about across-the-board quality, or mystique, or any other subjective, debatable factor you can think of, and just focus on volume. No other grape variety ...

Think of Emilia-Romagna's hyphen as a key to its wines. As the northwest part of this northern-Italian region, Emila prizes its lambruschi, a group of unrelated red-wine grapes with very different ...