Located in Sant’ Angelo in Colle in the commune of Montalcino, Tenuta Il Poggione was established at the end of the 19th century by Lavinio Franceschi and is still owned today by the fifth generation ...

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 ...

Sangiovese is one of the most popular and most planted grapes in Italy. The grapes make wines that offer fresh, cherry flavors and an earthy quality, often aromatic like cedar. Yet sangiovese (san-joh ...

Ripe sangiovese grapes grow on vines in Tuscany, Italy. (Dreamstime) Ripe sangiovese grapes grow on vines in Tuscany, Italy. (Dreamstime) Sangiovese is Italy’s numero uno grape. Forget about ...

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 – ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Since the emergence of the first Super Tuscans in the late 1970s, the plot line has been that they are made with “foreign” grapes ...

Some wines feature the name of the grape on the label. Others list the place where the wine was made. Then there’s Montecucco Sangiovese. The name of these outstanding Italian red wines packs in a lot ...

Sangiovese, Tuscany's most important red grape and the major variety in Chianti, Brunello di Montalcino and Vino Nobile di Montelpulciano, is also grown in the United States. In Chianti, the ...

Editor’s note: Additional information on Michigan Sangiovese was sent in after this story published and has been added to it. So let’s start with some Sangiovese basics. It’s the most widely grown ...

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 ...

I first met Paolo di Marchi some 20 years ago at a wine fair in Italy. Having completed a massive tasting of Chianti at a nearby generic stand I was intrigued by how different his wines were. Whereas ...