Many wine lovers worship Nebbiolo. The grape has experienced a boom in recent years, which has benefitted the entire region of Piedmont in the northwest of Italy. This is the home of Nebbiolo, and it ...

Not so long ago, as in well less than a century ago, grape growers in the Piemonte in northwest Italy were mostly subsistence farmers, scratching out a living selling their fruit in bulk to ...

The wine industry of Piedmont, as with virtually every other region in Italy, is based primarily on indigenous varieties. There are several, from the white Cortese and Timorasso to the red Grignolino, ...

One of the most coveted red wines in the world is a wine most wine drinkers won’t care for: Barolo made with the grape nebbiolo. Nebbiolo and its peak expression, Barolo, are wine aficionados’ wines.

THOSE WHO GROW and make pinot noir know it to be a fickle mistress, a maddening grape that prefers a region on the distant edge of viticultural viability. It barely ripens and only rarely results in a ...

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When it comes to wine royalty, nebbiolo is considered by most to be the king, the queen and even the grande dame of Italy’s royal court. Native to northwest Italy, the grape is responsible for some of ...

Whenever I come across a good, reasonably priced Nebbiolo, I think it’s real news. Nebbiolo, of course, is the red star of the Piedmont region in northern Italy, the grape that produces the famed ...

Barolo, the old expression goes, is the wine of kings and the king of wines. It is a classic example of synergy between a specific grape variety (in this case, Nebbiolo) and a particular place.

Cedar is one of two red blends that Anthony Vietri makes at Va La Vineyards in Avondale, Chester County. Released in January, this is the 12th vintage of what Vietri calls his signature red, made from ...