Vineyard of Nino Negri winery in Valtellina, near Italy's border with Switzerland. Photo courtesy Frederick Wildman. If you've ever seen images of vineyards situated on steep hillsides, ...

The Valtellina is also one of Italy’s smallest and least known wine producing regions. It stretches for 15 miles on either side of the town of Sondrio.

Valtellina, in northern Lombardy near the Swiss border, is the other Italian region known for nebbiolo. Climate change is helping these wines ripen more consistently in that cool climate, and we ...

As always, I suggested three good examples of the wine. The Valtellinas I recommended were: Ar.Pe.Pe Rosso di Valtellina 2014, Sandro Fay Valtellina Superiore Valgella Cà Moréi 2015 and Aldo ...

Nebbiolo is arguably one of Italy’s oldest and most celebrated wine grapes, giving us the famed wines of barolo and barbaresco from Piemonte, a land of mountain vistas and white truffles. Yet ...

Valtellina is all about height and history, ... Oltrepò Pavese lets you step properly away from the crowds and into quiet, vineyard-covered terrain on a 37-mile wine route beginning in Voghera.

The early 1970s were boom days for the Valtellina, which produced rivers of often low-grade wine for Switzerland. A Swiss company bought Negri and two other major producers, but by the end of that ...

Nebbiolo, after all, is the grape upon which Italy's two greatest, and priciest, red wines are based: Barbaresco and Barolo. The latter, the so-called "king of wines," is particularly expensive ...

Protecting the nation's environment is a growing trend and the country's wineries and vineyard owners are taking a leading role. The survey by the American Vintners Association, the national ...